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Fix the Bugs, Secure the System

Posted by michael on Sunday February 24, 2002 @11:53AM from the crunchy-on-the-outside dept.

LiquidPC writes: "OpenBSD's Louis Bertrand has put his MUSESS 2002 presentation online, entitled Fix the Bugs, Secure the System. Does an overview of OpenBSD, then explains Format String Ugliness, Buffer Overflows, The Wrong Way to Fix Overflows, along with numerous other things."

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Re:Fix the bugs? by wadetemp · 2002-02-24 14:34 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Because Microsoft has never shown any level of success with security.

And they've never really shown any incentive to improve security until this past bug fix month. The first step in fixing a problem is admitting that you have a problem. MS is doing that, and they get reamed for it. Some Slashdot readers need to admit that they have a problem with double standards.