Yes and there's a simple reason for his statement:phospher said:can you believe this dumb ass?
Internet infrastructure company Nominum launched a set of cloud-based services on Tuesday. Its new hosted Domain Name System division, Skye, is offering DNS caching, an authoritative DNS service, DNS-based navigation assistance and threat-management.
Security through obscurity does NOT guarantee security.By virtue of something being open source, it has to be open to everybody to look into. I can't keep secrets in there. But if I have a commercial-grade software product, then all of that is closed off, and so things are not visible to the hacker.
This is just plain lying.I would respond to them by saying, just look at the facts over the past six months, at the number of vulnerabilities announced and the number of patches that had to made to Bind and freeware products. And Nominum has not had a single known vulnerability in its software.
Nominum software was written 100 percent from the ground up, and by having software with source code that is not open for everybody to look at, it is inherently more secure.
Patches are released for major software all the time. This moron is just grasping for straws. And this one was fun too:" said:I would respond to them by saying, just look at the facts over the past six months, at the number of vulnerabilities announced and the number of patches that had to made to Bind and freeware products.
Then why have I never heard of you?" said:It's easy to say you've not had a single vulnerability if you're not widely deployed. But we run over half the internet. We are out in the most challenging, the most heavily trafficked networks in the world.
All that fluoride you drink goes to your brain. Fluoride is the cheap way to prevent tooth decay, but its price is brain and bone decay. It is NOT the only way to ensure every child was going to get healthy teeth...teaching their kids to brush their teeth regularly, with or without fluoride-based toothpaste, is the only way. But that's a story for another forum." said:In the US when I was growing up, various towns and cities put fluoride in the water. It was the only way to ensure every child was going to get healthy teeth.
Nice one :e Should be put in a sig I think.SirDice said:Security through obscurity does NOT guarantee security.