[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on the BBC!!!

Dean Sas dean at deansas.org
Tue Oct 27 08:58:50 GMT 2009


Daniel Drummond wrote:
>> 2009/10/27 Philip Stubbs <philip at stuphi.co.uk>:
>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8326264.stm?ls

> /"Some of the security is through obscurity but it's also better by 
> design," he said./
> 
> 
> Just doesn't make sense at all.  Surely as it is an open-source system, 
> there is no obscurity.  I think he means to say that Ubuntu is a smaller 
> target for crackers than some others.

It makes perfect sense, he said exactly what you said he meant to say.

Obscurity doesn't just mean the "hidden" or opaqueness. It also means
little known.


Dean



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