Save your complaints about the security or lack of security for closed systems. Identifying a more insecure system does not address the issue raised here. Pointing out that someone else has an insecure system does not improve yours at all. The purpose of his essay was to show a security risk in open-source operating systems. This fellow does not say that closed systems are immune to backdoors.
Now for my $0.02 about his essay. The main problem with his theory is that to change anything (the kernel, the login program, etc.), you have to be root. You can change the code when your a normal user, you can compile the code when your a normal user, you can run the program when your a normal user, but you can't do any damage when your a normal user (like you can't install the modified program).
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Save your complaints about the security or lack of security for closed systems. Identifying a more insecure system does not address the issue raised here. Pointing out that someone else has an insecure system does not improve yours at all.
The purpose of his essay was to show a security risk in open-source operating systems. This fellow does not say that closed systems are immune to backdoors.
Now for my $0.02 about his essay.
The main problem with his theory is that to change anything (the kernel, the login program, etc.), you have to be root. You can change the code when your a normal user, you can compile the code when your a normal user, you can run the program when your a normal user, but you can't do any damage when your a normal user (like you can't install the modified program).