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[Discuss] our friend the nsa



john saylor wrote:
> i've got to think that windows [esp] and mac os are *far* more
> vulnerable to exploits of this type as the source is not publically
> available.

Darwin, the Unix layer of OS X, is FreeBSD and the source code is very 
much publicly available.

Not that it matters. As I pointed out a few minutes ago, just because 
you can see the source code does not mean that you can see the 
vulnerabilities.

-- 
Rich P.



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