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Re: Is Linux creating a new breed of Hackers ?



On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 03:26:22PM +0530, Chakrabarti, Suvendra (CTS) wrote:

> Suddenly everything changed. The code for the kernel lay bare. GNU/Linux
> with its efforts for open source, gave the kernel to the world. Of course it
> was
> copylefted to Linus !! Anyone with an active knowledge of C, and a good
> knowledge of Assembler, internals could easily manipulate the code, and
> hack it down. And of course find the bugs in the code which can be
> manipulated.
> 
> If this manipulation is for gaining knowledge, and not harming any remote
> systems,
> it would do a hell lot of good to the Linux itself, which really it did. But
> few chose
> the other way, and well today Linux is the most hacked system, maybe in some
> cases causing harm.

<Yawn>. The short answer to your question, which any security consultant
will tell you - security by obscurity does not work. 

	-Arun


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