Posted by dave on 9/30/2009, 7:59 pm
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Talk about giving away your personal information!!! Here's a proposal to fight malware by letting everyone know what software you have on board, and your physical location, friends, and more, and having your system automatically query a central source to find out if a package you are about to install is malware.
This seems like something which might be needed in the Windows world, or other proprietary OSs... but not in open-source worlds like Linux and other Unix derivatives. The drastically invasive protection methods needed in the proprietary situation are taken care of simply and easily in an open-source situation by the fact that anyone can look at the code and, if he finds something fishy, he can broadcast it to the world.
Malware can hide in proprietary code; it simply can't hide in open-source code. It would be discovered right away and the word would spread like wildfires in California. Likewise for security holes which can hide in proprietary code but not in open-source code.
This seems to me like just one more very powerful advertisement for open-source code in favor of proprietary code.
In faith, Dave
Viva Texas
dave@christos.cjb.net, dpeirce@christian.net
It's all GNU to me.
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