an ominous comment

Stephen D. Williams sdw at lig.net
Thu Jul 16 12:33:55 PDT 2015


On 7/16/15 11:44 AM, grarpamp wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Shelley <shelley at misanthropia.org> wrote:
>> On July 16, 2015 10:24:23 AM "Stephen D. Williams" <sdw at lig.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 7/16/15 7:51 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:02:31AM -0700, Stephen D. Williams wrote:
>>>>> In a lot of ways, this is an elegant solution and could arguably be
>>>>> much more secure than desktop apps in Windows.  Assuming your
>>>> Lol, is this positive or negative argument?
>>>>
>>>> it can hardly be less secure than windoze imho.
>>> Cypherpunks + Windows, what do you think?
>> It's making me break out in hives, stop it!  :p
>>
>> *shudder*
> The bazillion lines of effectively unaudited code in opensource
> kernels and software should have the same effect upon you.

I personally have audited quite a bit of FOSS (and enough spot checkers can get pretty good coverage), but not one line of 
proprietary Microsoft, Oracle, or Apple code.  Your fears may be misplaced.

sdw

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