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Crackers owned the primary file servers of the GNU Project from mid-March until two weeks ago,...

Yes, read about that on slashdot a couple/few days ago.

http://www.slashdot.com

News for Nerds.

Lets all blame Microsoft for not having their products open source because if they had their products open source I'm sure people would add back doors into Windows and not Linux.</sarcasm>

At least I know that when I $buy$ my software no one intentionally placed a back door in it.

Edit: Long live the open source movement!

Quote from: Invert on August 17, 2003, 03:32 AM
Lets all blame Microsoft for not having their products open source because if they had their products open source I'm sure people would add back doors into Windows and not Linux.</sarcasm>

At least I know that when I $buy$ my software no one intentionally placed a back door in it.

Edit: Long live the open source movement!

Windows XP was a rare exception, eh?

Quote from: Invert on August 17, 2003, 03:32 AM

At least I know that when I $buy$ my software no one intentionally placed a back door in it.

When you buy closed-source software, you do not know if anyone intentionally placed a back door in it.

When you compile open-source software, you have the opportunity to check for yourself if anyone placed a back door in it.

Quote from: Adron on August 17, 2003, 11:03 AM
When you buy closed-source software, you do not know if anyone intentionally placed a back door in it.

When you compile open-source software, you have the opportunity to check for yourself if anyone placed a back door in it.

Yes I do, why would Microsoft risk a lawsuit that can bankrupt the company and intentionally place a backdoor in their software?

I know 100% that there is no intentional backdoor in my OS.

I don't know what your OS is, but, if it's a Microsoft OS, you can't know 100% if there is an intentional backdoor in it or not. You don't have source. They could've been pressured by the FBI or some other agency to install a backdoor somewhere.

There's an internal backdoor in Windows XP. I believe there was one also in Windows ME. It was essentially spyware that could be easily exploited. When Microsoft realized this wasn't gonna fly, they began to patch XP to close that hole. I think this was actually on the news, as well.