Sometimes, people do such stupid things that words almost fail me. That’s the case with a Debian ‘improvement’ to OpenSSL that rendered this network security program next to useless in Debian, Ubuntu and other related Linux distributions.
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lozz
15 years 49 weeks 3 days 19 hours ago
A Must Read article.
This article is a Must Read for everyone interested in security.
aboutblank
15 years 49 weeks 3 days 4 hours ago
People make mistakes
> This isn’t just bad. This is Microsoft security bad.
People make mistakes. The point of freedom is that nobody is subject to helplessness. The point of freedom is that society is not divided from co-operating. Autonomy and co-operation is not possible when users accept proprietary software and this is the biggest difference between the Debian group and Microsoft.