the proprietary advantage?

Am 02. Aug, 2003 schw=E4tzte der.hans so:

> Am 02. Aug, 2003 schw=E4tzte technomage so:
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> > 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
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