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1 Oct 2024 07:19:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Apparently...  
From: Warp
Date: 19 Apr 2008 03:51:55
Message: <4809a49b@news.povray.org>
Tim Cook <z99### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> ...PnP device drivers are programmed into the device themselves, not 
> bundled as generic packages with windows
> ...one can decompile windows and see the original comments from the code
> ...75% of the space windows occupies is junk comments that can be 
> removed after aforementioned decompile
> ...a unix kernel has no form of security whatsoever; any security, 
> including non-superuser accounts, must be programmed by the admin 
> separately or dropped in as modules that the admin configures, and 
> contain 'back doors' that those in the know can readily access
> ...2 semesters of C and Pascal programming at university is sufficient 
> to establish certain knowledge that any system security that the OS 
> itself handles is bad, third-party software is definitely the way to go

> *flabbergasted after dinner conversation with housemate*

  The sad thing is that bosses usually eagerly hire that kind of people
because they like what they are saying.

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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