Am 02. Aug, 2003 schw=E4tzte der.hans so: > Am 02. Aug, 2003 schw=E4tzte technomage so: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Saturday 02 August 2003 02:05 pm, der.hans wrote: > > > moin, moin, > > > > > > proprietary software vendors have claimed their products are more sec= ure > > > than Free Software because there's no source code to examine. They cl= aim > > > this means bad guys have to develop the exploit rather than just find= an > > > error. This is a process that supposedly takes longer and is harder t= o do. > > > > > > > > Now add in tools like BugScan, http://www.bugscaninc.com/, and any cl= aims > > > of security through obscurity by proprietary vendors just don't hold = water. > > the above mentioned webpage doesn't appear to exist (I got timeouts and= bad > > hostname errors trying to access it). > > I'd say that there are currently problems out on the Net. > > Can't get to: www.cnn.com, www.intel.com, www.{fsf,gnu}.org, > www.slashdot.com, www.google.com. > > Probs getting to www.Spiegel.de, but eventually got through. > > www.Yahoo.com works, so does www.AZOTO.org. Ooops. Didn't check all of those with links as well as traceroute. http://www.bugscaninc.com/ seems to be down, though. ciao, der.hans --=20 # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.AZOTO.org/ # A Polish friend of mine got an offer for a free account from AOL. The # login ID was "HELLO" and the passwd "CYMBAL". She says "cymbal" is # Polish for "sucker". "Hello sucker" a greeting from AOHell :).