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To: puborectalis who wrote (1829)	11/19/1999 3:41:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 2617

The only true security is that which one can determine by oneself. Else you are depending or trusting the word or opinion of someone else. Linux with completely open source has the truest of security. This is because the code is eyeballed by hundreds, many of whom are the best and brightest and honest. That is true security. Although there are others who believe in security by obscurity the way msft and other proprietary OS vendor do business. So we have for example msft with an OS where thousands make millions selling virus scanning software and we have Linux where as far as I know there are no virus scanning programs. Everyone who finds a virus can report it to MSFT or create a company with the appropriate antibiotic. Anyone who finds a bug with Linux get declared a guru by cyberdom. A good system's engineer can understand exactly how a computer system operates at every level 10 orders of magnitude better than any 500 doctors can understand how a single cell operates. So in perspective I'd say that the danger of viral/bacterial infection of a Linux machine is akin to drinking a glass of distilled water. For other proprietary OSes it's a case of what sewer your swimming in. Also most don't understand that with physical access(touch the computer)there is no security. Tom Watson tosiwmee