, 2002-08-07
The OpenSSH backdoor demonstrates that the community must get pragmatic about package verification, and fast.
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Is it really so inmature?
2002-08-08
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino (1 replies)
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino (1 replies)
Time Time to Grow UP? NO! Time to quit acting like children! There is a difference.
2002-08-09
Axe-2-Grind
Axe-2-Grind
"To add GNU Privacy Guard or another signature-checking tool to the base operating system will always be controversial to software purists who want to keep Unix just like it was when they first logged onto a PDP/11 in 1979."
purist: n : someone who insists on great precision and correctness
stubborn
adj 1: tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield [ant: {docile}]
"I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions. What physicist who was already active in 1900 would dream of boasting that his opinions had not changed during the last half century?" -- Bertrand Russell
Times have changed guys, get with the program.
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