Open-source intrusion detector found to be flawed

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At the inability of the Eunuchs and Open Source crowd to realise that you can't remove all the bugs from anything - all you can hope for is to get to 99% or so bug free. The reason is that reality is an infinite series of IF...THEN statements (or case or switch) and programmers can't think of all the possibilities, once you allow users in the mix. I'm not going to link to IBM's extensive research - look it up yourself.

While people obsess about bugs in OS's, there are thousands of apps that are both exploitable and insecure and they don't really respect what OS you are running on.

The reality is, that very few of these 'exploits' cause damage or spread far - especially if you don't click on email attachments or illegally (or sometimes legally) download porn, crackz and warez. However, in the end I'll take an OS designed in this century rather than that warmed over 70s show, *nix.

Posted by: TonyMcS   Posted on: 02/21/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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