On Mon, 4 Jun 2018 17:46:54 +0100 Mark Rousell <mark.rous...@signal100.com> wrote:
> On 04/06/2018 17:01, KatolaZ wrote: > > Microsoft knows that GitHub is a goldmine of ideas and cool > > projects, and owning it means profiling the free software community > > with an unprecedented accuracy. > > But if most of those projects are open source ones then Microsoft (or > anyone else) would have had access to all that information anyway. It's like the difference between a bad guy hacking your system remotely and his having physical possession. In the former case, he must come in using specific protocols, and on a relatively slow wire. In the latter case, he sets up an alternative OS instance to brute-force scan the system at a speed orders of magnitude faster. SteveT Steve Litt June 2018 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
