-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 October 22, 2003 06:08 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: <snip > And somehow we are led to believe that getting into a room with a bunch of > corporate representatives from various companies will somehow result in a > superior product than the free marketplace of ideas and technical quality?
> I don't know about your own experiences, but everytime I have been involved > in a product development effort designed by a committee, I have not been > overly impressed with the final results. Again, YMMV. My own personal experiences with anything involving committees forces me to fall back on an old quote: "A committee is the only lifeform in the known universe with many limbs, many eyes, many mouths...... and no brains." Sorry but I thought the discussion was becoming too intense. No offence intended. (-: > In my experience, nothing is secure. If you want absolute security, load > software on the box, rip out all the disk drives, network connections, > external interfaces and the keyboard and you are now secure. I used to > have an old XT computer chassis, no disk drives, no keyboard and no working > ports, that was a pretty secure box. I don't disagree with what you say, but I understand Haywire's point. For the average non-technically inclined computer user any GNU/Linux/Open Source system is easier to secure and maintain as secure. Simply because there are so many ways to work toward the goal and so many available tools and layers of defence to use. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake 9.2 (Five Stars) 2.4.22-12.tmb.1mdk 10:23:18 up 18:01, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.08, 0.08 weapon, n.: An index of the lack of development of a culture. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/lrD6G11CaRuZZSIRAjVrAJ9/wzX02b1mjvjHusbHwVQn4tMHQQCfekAs YLNApiCp2j6hiNSskNFDE6o= =95ou -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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