From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 18 2:37:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 264E037B401 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 02:37:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FE7243E6E for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 02:37:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0012.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.12] helo=mindspring.com) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18DjHH-0000cX-00; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 02:37:16 -0800 Message-ID: <3DD8C13C.87296F62@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 02:30:20 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? References: <20021117160245.U23359-100000@hub.org> <058a01c28e7c$c1af5f60$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20021117210742.GG17611@over-yonder.net> <05c701c28e95$4c8c9c70$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3DD8483C.4E4AD6F6@mindspring.com> <06af01c28ee7$189b5da0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3DD8B845.5E3BC445@mindspring.com> <06bd01c28eeb$bd4e9de0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Virtually no operating system can be simultaneously hooked to the Internet > _and_ remain fully secure. UNIX is similarly vulnerable, as are just about > all other mainstream operating systems. Multics, BLACKER, SCOMP, and some > others were far more secure, but I don't know what happened to them > (Multics, the OS of which UNIX is a subset, is dead, but the others I don't > know about). You may quote me on this: Claiming that it's OK for your product to suck because someone else's product sucks is really stupid. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message