full-disclosure - RE: Linux (in)security

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20031023160231.GD9210@adamantix.org>
From: peter at adamantix.org (Peter Busser)
Subject: RE: Linux (in)security

Hi!

> > http://www.suse.co.uk/uk/company/schools/sheet.pdf
> > ``As a desktop operating system Linux is secure, stable and easy to use.''
> > (SuSE is a vendor BTW)
> >
> > http://www.bio-itworld.com/news/022503_report2077.html
> > ``The certification is "additional validation" that Linux is secure, ...''
> 
> And yet, none of these seem to be direct statements from the dist
> maintainers, more appearing to be media related links.  Do you have actual
> links that support your claim made by those that maintain or distribute
> various dists?

Right, SuSE is not a dist maintainer nor a distributor. And the director of
IBM's Linux Technology Center has nothing to do with Linux development either.

Groetjes,
Peter Busser
-- 
The Adamantix Project
Taking trustworthy software out of the labs, and into the real world
http://www.adamantix.org/