From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Tue Sep 17 2002 - 12:22:31 MDT
> (Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com>):
> Wei Dai wrote:
> >I wonder if anyone is as disturbed as I am with the recent news of remote
> >exploitable holes in OpenSSH and OpenSSL that allow attackers to run
> >arbitrary code. When open-source software whose only purpose is to improve
> >computer security actually make it worse, I have to wonder if security is
> >possible at all. Has anyone thought about what causes this seeming
> >inability of human beings to write secure software, and what its
> >implications are for the future?
>
> What on earth gave you the idea that the only purpose of Open
> Source software is to make computers more secure?
Look up "restrictive relative clause" in a good English grammar book.
He's talking about specific pieces of software--SSH and SSL--whose
purpose is indeed security.
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