[olug] OT: security through antiquity

[DYNATRON tech]

>
> Tons of hot dogs are consumed everyday, but because they are familiar
> we don't think about not knowing what is in them.
>

i know they contain some foul shit, that's why i don't eat them. also, i've
never seen the proprietary recipe, so i have to assume that it's not
something i would voluntarily eat.

it might be tasty for the majority of consumers (i.e. windows fans), but me
personally, i'd rather know what's in there, or at least have the ability to
find out

.

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Thomas D. Williamson <
twilliam at inebraska.com> wrote:

> Quoting DYNATRON tech <dynatron at gmail.com>:
>
> >>
> >> Anyway, Schneier's comment on the subject was that reviewed code was
> more
> >> secure than unreviewed code, even if binary exact.  I think it has more
> to
> >> do with a 'trust' and possibly psychological stuffs.
> >
> >
> >
> > it's because you know what you are getting.
> >
> > would you eat something if you didn't know what was in it?
> >
>
> Tons of hot dogs are consumed everyday, but because they are familiar
> we don't think about not knowing what is in them.
>
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Sam Tetherow <tetherow at shwisp.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Even if it didn't have malware, would you really want to go back to the
> >> days of Trumpet WinSOCK?
> >>
> >> Sam Tetherow
> >> Sandhills Wireless
> >>
> >> Phil Brutsche wrote:
> >> > Will Langford wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> I suppose ya could make an argument that 'through antiquity' is just
> a
> >> >> special case of 'through obscurity' ...
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > Is it?
> >> >
> >> > This particular article talks about IE5 running on... wait for it...
> >> > Windows 3.1!
> >> >
> >> > Windows 3.1 has no security mechanisms what-so-ever and I'm sure that
> >> > it's chock full of buffer overruns and stack overflows and ..., but
> how
> >> > much malware will run outside of Win32?
> >> >
> >> > It's similar to one of the arguments for running MacOS or Linux.
> >> >
> >> >
>
>
> Tom Williamson
>
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