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Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

From Joe <joe@jretrading.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools
Date 2019-03-10 21:20 +0100
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On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 19:46:42 +0000
mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2019-03-10 17:13, Joe wrote:
> > On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 19:35:18 +0300
> > Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> wrote:
> >   
> >> 	Hi.
> >> 
> >> On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 04:32:42PM -0000, Curt wrote:
> >>   
> >> >
> >> > I thought he was saying the surest approach is not touching
> >> > Windows with a ten foot pole,  
> >> 
> >> You're aiming too low. Not touching any non-free OS with a ten foot
> >> pole would be much more like it.
> >> 
> >>   
> > While bearing in mind that 'free' doesn't mean 'problem-free'.
> > 
> > Remember how many people audited the Heartbleed code before it was
> > released?  
> 
> didn't I read openSSL just had the one full time guy for thousands of 
> lines of code ?

I believe only one person other than the writer audited the code, and
this was a piece of core open-source security code. While "given enough
eyeballs, all bugs are shallow", it is clear that code being open
source does not automatically deliver the eyeballs.

-- 
Joe

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Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools deb <deb@rangingthoughts.org> - 2019-03-10 16:00 +0100
  Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2019-03-10 16:10 +0100
    Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools Paul Sutton <zleap@disroot.org> - 2019-03-11 12:00 +0100
      Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-03-11 13:10 +0100
        RE: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2019-03-11 14:00 +0100
  Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-03-10 16:30 +0100
    Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-03-10 16:40 +0100
      Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-03-10 17:40 +0100
        Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-03-10 18:20 +0100
          Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2019-03-10 19:50 +0100
          Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-03-10 20:50 +0100
            Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-03-10 21:20 +0100
          Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-03-10 21:00 +0100
      Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-03-10 17:40 +0100
        And now, from the Nice people? Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus  tools deb <deb@rangingthoughts.org> - 2019-03-10 18:20 +0100
          Re: And now, from the Nice people? Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus  tools Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu> - 2019-03-10 21:10 +0100
          Re: And now, from the Nice people? Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus  tools Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-03-10 21:20 +0100
            Re: And now, from the Nice people? Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus  tools Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2019-03-12 05:20 +0100
          Re: And now, from the Nice people? Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-03-11 08:40 +0100
            Re: And now, from the Nice people? Re: Group thoughts on:  Anti-virus tools Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-03-11 09:30 +0100
              Re: And now, from the Nice people? Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-03-11 23:20 +0100
                Re: And now, from the Nice people? Re: Group thoughts on:  Anti-virus tools Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-03-12 10:00 +0100
                Re: And now, from the Nice people? Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-03-12 19:50 +0100
          Re: And now, from the Nice people? Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2019-03-11 13:40 +0100
            Re: And now, from the Nice people? Re: Group thoughts on:  Anti-virus tools Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-03-11 14:50 +0100
              Re: And now, from the Nice people? Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2019-03-11 16:50 +0100
                Re: And now, from the Nice people? Re: Group thoughts on:  Anti-virus tools Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-03-11 19:20 +0100
  Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-03-10 16:40 +0100
  Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> - 2019-03-10 19:00 +0100
    Thanks Mart -- Re: Mart -- [Solved] [Well, not solved,. but sickened  by] Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools deb <deb@rangingthoughts.org> - 2019-03-13 00:30 +0100
      Re: Thanks Mart -- Re: Mart -- [Solved] [Well, not solved,. but  sickened by] Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-03-13 00:40 +0100
  Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2019-03-10 19:50 +0100
  Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-03-11 08:10 +0100
  Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2019-03-12 09:50 +0100
    Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> - 2019-03-12 13:20 +0100
  Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-03-12 11:40 +0100

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