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Jay Beale On Overcoming Linux Security Holes

Posted by timothy on from the hey-where-is-jay-now dept.

alpinista writes "Sorry, Redmond; according to Jay Beale, it's not yet time to throw away all those pesky insecure Linux boxes. Newsforge interviewed Jay and got some pretty straight talk from a guy that knows more that his share about OS security. In a nutshell: 'Beale's take on how you can make your system more secure, on the Linux vs. Windows security debate, and on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's impact on security testing.'"

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  1. Correctness by norwoodites · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why do people do not stop for a second and audit their code for correctness, like what the OpenBSD people have been doing?
    Correctness will make security holes be very few and far in between.
    Also the more eyes the better because someone can spot one problem somewhere that another would not spot.
    I think for the linux kernel 2.8, correctness should be a priority. Also for glibc 2.4, and all other project's next version which should include Mozilla.