Re:Linux Security

[Jason Hackney <x98hackney1@xxxxxxxxx>]

> >Does anybody know what the deal is behind the recent rash of articles about
> >Linux, Open Source, and security?  Any educated thoughts on the matter?  The
> >lack of eloquent rebuttals to these articles is beginning to fray my rope a
> >bit.~
> 
> Can you point me to some artciles?  I haven't seen a "rash" but maybe I
> haven't been lookin in the right place.  One problem may be that people
> assume "their" Linux box is secure, because Linux has lots of security
> features,  if you don't use them your no better off then under Wfwg.

This is the straw that broke the camel's back.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/03/biztech/articles/30tsc-linux.html

So far, this is the only intelligent rebuttal I've yet read, but I don't think
it was published by an organization as well-circulated as the NYTimes:
http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000329.html

I've been reading similar articles for most of the week now about how OSS is
never going to cut it with Linux. Perhaps I'm just now noticing the frequency
of this FUD?