http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/taxonomy/term/1287/0 en http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/some-people-just-dont-get-it <p>I mean, we are heading towards 2010 , some of us have been using Open Source for decades, the Open Source vs Free Software discussion was like last millenium, and we've been doing open source consultancy for over a decade, yet today companies still think their customers are stupid,</p> <p>Fancy this story on <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement/0,1000000308,39760362,00.htm?s_cid=260" rel="nofollow">ZDNet</a> today .. there's actually companies out there claiming that "Bind" because of it's FreeWare nature , yes that's right you've Read FREEWARE , (hadn't heard that word for over 5 years..) , is less secure than their proprietary offering in the Cloud. So the very nature of their Secure product is offering Security by Obscurity in an insecure environment .</p> <p>The sad part is that they probably get customers that believe their story, afterall it's hosted in the Cloud .. so it must be good not ?</p> <p>Oh well... <a href="http://twitter.com/mcgoverntheory/status/4312964980" rel="nofollow">James McGovern</a> had a nice comment on that earlier today "</p> <p>"The goal of the security market is to make money, not to ensure the customer's security"</p> <p>I'll keep my security infrastructure <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software" rel="nofollow">Open</a>, thank you very much</p> <p>But afterall everything is a fine DNS Problem ...</p> http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/some-people-just-dont-get-it#comments bind dnsproblem morons obscurity opensource security Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:14:07 +0000 Kris Buytaert 937 at http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog