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For six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul

Thursday, December 11, 2003

Attacks on Linux mount
A CNET report on the recent spate of attacks on Linux projects notes, "during the last four months, unknown intruders have breached the security around servers hosting programs and code published by the Linux kernel development team, the Debian Project, the Gentoo Linux Project and the GNU Project, which manages the development of many important programs used by Linux and other Unix-like systems. The attacks have convinced open-source project leaders to take another look at their security." Here's a thought. Maybe these open source project leaders could make an announcement that they are going to rearchitect their projects around security, halt new software development for three months to hunt for security bugs, and then ensure that all new releases going forward are secure by design, by default, and in deployment. I even have a snappy name for this initiative. They could call it "Trustworthy Computing." And once they do this, rallying the hundreds of thousands of open source developers to their cause, they could snidly make fun of Microsoft for not "getting" security.

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