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[Antony]

Based on this article Linux kernel backdoor blocked.
Let me re-write the instroduction of the story...

The easiest way for hackers to hack into operating systems is to use backdoor.
Then how do they find out backdoors? Easy, source code is freely available. But since it is available in public domain, it has also been verified by thousands of developers. So to find the backdoor is virtually impossible.
They cannot find one, so they created one. And submitted to the community and passed the first test.

Read the story - Linux kernel backdoor blocked (The Register)

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[Edward]

This is another example of why Open-Source software is more secure and safe to use. It is a good article.

Linux is far more safe and secure to use than Windows will ever be, in my opinion.

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[Mandrake]

It is apparently "Microsoft's top priority" to improve the security in Windows XP Service Pack 2, I hope they do something about this constant downloading of patches . . . Linux is much more secure, no matter what anyone says.

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[Antony]

Let's not forget what Mr Gates said, open source was "inferior."

From the story,

That difference between what the code looks like and what it actually is - that is, between assignment and comparison - is a matter of a single equal sign in the C programming language, making it easy to overlook. If the addition had been detected in a normal code review, the backdoor could even have been mistaken for a programming error - no different from the buffer overflows that wind up in Microsoft products on a routine basis. "It's indistinguishable from an accidental bug," says security consultant Ryan Russell. "So unless you have a reason to be suspicious, and go back and find out if it was legitimately checked in, that's going to be a long trail to follow."

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