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Re: [smb@research.att.com: German government to fund GPG]

From: rgb_-at-_conscoop.ottawa.on.ca (Richard Guy Briggs)
Date: 19 Nov 1999 16:57:49 -0500
References: <19991119164634.N4383@grendel.conscoop.ottawa.on.ca>

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On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 04:50:34PM -0500, Russell McOrmond wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > That could be said about the entire platform... In other words, people
> > must be using a platform as secure as winNT or better, such as Linux
> > or *BSD.
>=20
>   Linux or *BSD are only better in that you have the CHOICE to use it more
> securely.  Linux users who only ever log into their machine as 'root' are
> no more secure than someone running on a Windows9x machine.  At that point
> it is a matter of the bad applications and not a secure/insecure platform.

Yup, plus the added bonus, that the source can be audited.  This is
specifically why I didn't list Unix/aix/hpux/ultrix/solaris/sco/....
But then again, there is the whole topic of 'Trusting trust'.

>  Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://russell.flora.org/work/>

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