[109651] in Cypherpunks
Re: Virus, Media and Open systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Wed Mar 31 17:04:35 1999
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 23:34:58 +0200 (CEST)
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
> What do people think about the fact that virtually no media reports on
> melissa mentioned that only Microsoft products were susceptable to this
> virus??
>
> What about the point of view that in the interconnected world, one should
> not use proprietary software, only open source software :)
Open source software wouldn't necessarily help. Sendmail has had open
source for ages and it's still full of security bugs.
The real lesson is that virus WRITERS should use open source software.
That's the only way they can be sure their development tools aren't
putting identifying information into their files!
