Common problems with Ubuntu

[Gilboa Davara]

On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 20:23 +0300, Elazar Leibovich wrote:
> Why do you think that MS believe in security by obscurity? I believe
> that security problems in MS products are generally speaking being
> released to the wild.
> Why I think MS products has better chance to be secure than your local
> Joe Software shop, because they're having strict policies which are
> supposed to enforce that:
> 1) The SDL development process, which includes fuzz testing the
> software specifically against security breaches. Every MS software
> must undergo that. Do regular software you use do?
> 2) Cryptography awareness. Every product which uses crypto must be
> authorized by a specialized crypto group. Crypto is a thing which is
> easy to create and hard to verify. Is Winzip encryption algorithm
> being reviewed by crypto expert? I'd rather know that the software I
> use had a strong peer review.
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but this two processes are hardly seen in
> other places of the software industry.

... I doubt that any of the above has anything to do with the points I
raised in my previous post, but never-mind, lets agree no to agree.

- Gilboa