[Linux-bruxelles] [virus] les journalistes...

[Yannick Warnier]

Le ven 22/08/2003 à 10:29, Jérôme Warnier a écrit :
> Le ven 22/08/2003 à 09:07, Cabuzel Thierry a écrit :

> Une espèce de petit village de la Gaule qui résiste encore à
> l'envahisseur: tous les ordinateurs du monde entier? Non, car il existe
> des OS alternatifs qui ont beaucoup moins ce genre de problèmes, parce
> qu'ils sont créés avec la sécurité comme préoccupation première, et non
> pas la rentabilité et le plus vaste distribution commerciale possible.
> Ou bien, simplement parce qu'ils sont différents...

Et alors sur ce t'en as qui te répliqueront que:

>    When Microsoft announced last fall that the International
>Organization for Standardization (ISO) had awarded Windows 2000 the
>highest possible grade in the Common Criteria (CC) security
>certification, open-source advocates downplayed the honor as
>insignificant and unrelated to real-world security analysis. This
>week, however, ISO also awarded Linux the CC security certification,
>and as one might expect, the open-source community greeted the
>announcement with cheers. There's just one catch: Linux got a lower
>security rating than Win2K did last year.
>    ISO granted Linux a "low to moderate" security rating, whereas
>Win2K received a "moderate to high" security rating. According to
>people close to the certification process, ISO tested Linux for higher
>security ratings but the open-source solution achieved only the "low
>to moderate" rating.
>    Further dampening the celebration is news that most Linux
>installations didn't receive the certification. Sponsored by a
>$500,000 fee that IBM paid, the certification applies only to SuSE
>Linux and then only when that product is installed on certain IBM
>hardware. Still, the certification is an important first step for
>Linux, which is trying to position itself as a viable alternative to
>Windows in various situations. Microsoft has made significant
>security-related improvements to Windows since the company launched
>its Trustworthy Computing initiative a year and a half ago.

...et ça repart quoi. Comment peut-on techniquement s'en sortir avec des
solutions qui ne jouent pas avec l'argent dans un monde dominé par
l'argent. La patience est une arme excellente mais elle est difficile à
maîtriser... :-)

Yannick