[Leaplist] Why Open Source won't work on "Vista computers"

[Chris]

Phil Barnett wrote:

>On Wednesday 27 December 2006 01:56, Chris wrote:
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>>I'm seriously ignorant
>>of any clear and present threat in the FOSS world that this
>>would deal with.
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>I guess you've never been rootkitted. Or hacked. Or compromised.
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>I have. Tripwire may be able to tell you what happened after the smoke clears, 
>but then it's too late. Yes, Linux has this need.
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No, I haven't, and given my expertise compared to yours,
I'm going to attribute this to sheer dumb luck on my part.
I'm going to hang my ignorance out on the clothesline here
for the neighbors to see, and ask if these don't represent
O/S defects that are better solved by hardening the affected
pathways? For example, and I know this is heresy, and I hope
I don't get struck by lightning, but if you had been running
OpenBSD do you feel you would have had the same exposure?

Maybe more importantly - do you feel you have the same
exposure today? If not - what changed?

And, given the ugly details of implementation I mentioned,
how do you see implementing something like this across
the plethora of distros we have?

Thanks,

Chris (mouse hovering over the download button on the
OpenBSD site ;-) )