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OSS gets a good nod in Security Awards
jose
nazario writes "hey, just a quick note to say that L0phtcrack,
nmap and the IPsec draft all got high nods from InfoWorld's Golden
Gaurdian awards for 1998. a brief quote, "The developing IPSec standard also is represented in the third portion of 1998's Goldie, which we
bestow on the scope of open-source security
solutions. Self-reliance is a central tenet of the
security administrator's bible, and 1998 saw the
release and improvement of some useful tools for
security administrators." enjoy. "
OSS OS's shall rule the world, and there was much rejoicing.
Don't you mean Golden Guardian?
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Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future columns.
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More information about OpenBSD can be found on http://www.openbsd.org/
Information about the security can be found at http://www.openbsd.org/security.html and http://www.openbsd.org/plus.html
It's get to see Open Sound System getting so much press lately. Keep up the good work people at 4front-tech.com!
I assume you idiots dont mean Open Source Software, as it would be Microsoftian to refer to it as OSS, which is in fact, Microsoft's coined abbreviation for Open Source.
OSS refers to the sound drivers for Linux and a number of other operating systems.
I'm getting sick of OSS newbs... Most of em have no clue they use GNU (some of em prolly don't, even; they use doze and just pretend to be pro-Free), much less any clue what GNU is or why it's so important.
Of course, there's a plenty of non-GNU stuff that's Free Software too, particularly BSD stuff, so don't think I'm limiting the definition of Free Software to GNU/GPL'd software. I'm just rather annoyed with 'reet OSS dudes who want to make ``Linux'' into a doze lookalike and who have no understanding of the OS they call Linux.
- RF (dfelker@cnu.edu)
I visited this site and didn't find any info about you. How do you explain this? Are you going to sue this company? They don't seem to respect you. If you don't sue them can't they prevent open source from being approved as a certification mark?
Oh, and why did you slam Nick Petreley for using the word collaborative? Is he really BAD or something because he used a word you don't lay claim to or because he didn't use a word you do lay claim to? Help us to understand all this, Bruce!
Daniel Webster
Every time L0pht Heavy Industries or Phrack are mentioned here, they are ridiculed as being "crackers." Yet now that they win some awards (with L0phtcrack and nmap) the OSS community suddenly claims them as part of the community. Odd.
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On a side note, the GUI L0phtcrack is shareware. Nice way to punish clueless NT lusers. CLI version is Open Source.
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Why do you demand that people who use free software sign up for the politics? Is there supposed to be a minimum intelligence limit for your average Linux user? Although I may be wading through a few more newbie posts on newsgroups, I'm happy to see the new-found popularity of Linux and the attention it's brought to the free software effort. Making it more "doze-like" (if this is what's required to present a more friendly human interface) will only allow more users to escape the QA-hell that's Microsoft. Whether new users understand the different licensing models or philosophy behind it makes little difference to me. All this attention can only lead to more, higher quality free software.