Re: What's the story with the "end of XP"?

Chris Hills wrote:
In article <4672A842.6F818F44@xxxxxxxxx>, CBFalconer <cbfalconer@xxxxxxxxx> writes
The Real Andy wrote:
Steve wrote:

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Net security is best looked at pro-actively, not re-actively.
Block everything coming in using a proper firewall - trying to
get the latest windows updates to patch known holes is a
never-ending battle.

And this differs from linux and Mac exactly how?

To start with, the source is available for Linux. MAC ??

The availability of the source is completely irrelevant.



The availability of the source is only irrelevant to security *if* the people behind the source are so good at their job, so dedicated to the security of the product regardless of functionality, ease-of-use, time, cost, marketing, sales, public image, etc., and so good at secure programming, that no one else would be able to do a better job even with source code access. Thus you could reasonably claim that Opera would not be more secure if the source were available, but the same can't be said for certain other well-known closed source browsers.

Of course, no one (I hope!) thinks that making the source available automatically makes a program secure - it's only one part of the process.
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