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From: j.riden at massey.ac.nz (James Riden)
Subject: Support the Sasser-author fund started

merlyn@...nehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

> So why is it, with Microsoft and all of their billeeeunnss of dollars,
> that they wouldn't spend at least SOME MORE of that BEFORE they
> release their code?  OpenBSD manages a decent security review and a
> right mindset towards security on the annual amount of money that Bill
> Gates makes every time he takes a dump.

I haven't seen the Win32 source code, but I'd bet that OpenBSD is
considerably easier to audit - I have a growing suspicion that Win32
is just too complex to be properly secured. A lot of recent patches
have had unintended consequences or have been marked as having new
functionality.

-- 
James Riden / j.riden@...sey.ac.nz / Systems Security Engineer
Information Technology Services, Massey University, NZ.
GPG public key available at: http://www.massey.ac.nz/~jriden/