Re: Internet child-porn crackdown: Federal prosecutions soar   

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:46:58 -0700, Stratum wrote:


> (*) Andy Tanenbaum, professor of computer sci at Vrij Univ., Amsterdam
> and
> author of MINIX is perhaps most famous for being a professor of Linus
> Torvalds
> who created a production OS out of MINIX in 1990-91 which he named for
> himself.

If you can't get that fact correct it calls into question your other
assertions.

> 
> I pointed out a type of malware which is easily defeated.  While it does
> not infect a client, as another well known troll hereabouts pointed out,
> it does infect precisely your open source system when deployed as a
> server.  And further, your open source client can be easily infected
> with a Trojan which unknown to its hapless user attacks Web page servers
> with the same malware, while a Vista OS user almost certainly cannot.

But have those servers been infected?  You seem to be comparing
known infections (vista) with the hypothetical (linux).

> Your open source software is based on an outmoded architecture and is
> written in a legacy language which is useful now chiefly as a teaching
> tool.


Ok, well, don't hold back!  ;)


Care to elaborate?



-Thufir

date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:01:10 GMT   author:   thufir