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

[Daniel Drummond]

Dean Sas wrote:
> Daniel Drummond wrote:
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>>> 2009/10/27 Philip Stubbs <philip at stuphi.co.uk>:
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>>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8326264.stm?ls
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>
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>> /"Some of the security is through obscurity but it's also better by 
>> design," he said./
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>> 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.
>>     
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> 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.
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>
> Dean
>
>   
An unfortunate choice of phrase though, considering the negative 
connotations it has with respect to security.