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So claim made, nothing to back it up. Got it. 

all I need to say is…BASH , OpenSSL…..

I am sure there are more.

But really, if you are going to claim something, at least be willing to back up what you claim is that asking to much ?

On Oct 10, 2014, at 12:21 PM, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> On Fri, October 10, 2014 12:01 pm, William Woods wrote:
>> Really, you have some URL’s to back up the paranoia ?
> 
> Well, that's the problem with closed source systems (Which MS Windows is
> and commercial antiviruses for it are). One can claim something and there
> is no way to prove it is right or it is wrong (or left? ;-)
> 
> I remember some clever person said: "security can only be in open source".
> There are systems that are not [quite] open source, even though they are
> based on open source. I may be out of date but some time ago (last time I
> cared to check) Android was not (even though it is based on Linux kernel,
> there is fair chunk of closed code in its kernel). Everybody is free to
> imagine me with tin foil hat on, or with pointy hat on...
> 
> Valeri
> 
>> 
>> On Oct 10, 2014, at 12:00 PM, Always Learning <centos@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, 2014-10-10 at 12:19 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, October 9, 2014 21:11, John R Pierce wrote:
>>>>> On 10/9/2014 6:07 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>>>>>> BTW, the whole idea of "antivirus" is flawed. It is based on
>>>>>> "enumerate
>>>>>> bad". You can't, as one never knows what will be invented in a
>>>>>> future.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I agree, but I don't know what else you can put in the hands of the
>>>>> novice, unless its the iPhone world of corporate approved apps only
>>>>> purchased through a monopoly 'app store'.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Which simply means: Only 'Government Approved' viruses allowed.
>>> 
>>> Excellent point. Windows 95 was designed to be accessible by the USA
>>> authorities. USA anti-virus software "allows" access from the USA
>>> authorities.
>>> 
> 
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