Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related
On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 10:54 -0600, yaro@marupa.net wrote:
> On Monday, December 02, 2013 05:46:04 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 20:52 +0530, AP wrote:
> > > But still you say it good and the fact that many people use
> > > it, makes me a trust for it
> >
> > Perhaps more people use Outlook Express ;)? Seriously, Thunderbird might
> > even be more used as Outlook Express on Windows, but this means, that
> > it's an interesting target for attacks.
>
> A better way to put that is this.
>
> Popularity doen't necessarily translate to quality, however, popularity almost
> guarantees someone, somewhere, is looking at the code.
"The French military uses Thunderbird and contributes to its security
features, which are claimed to match the requirements for NATO's closed
messaging system." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird
Yes, millions of hackers are looking at the code too, not only the "good
guys" ;). It's more interesting to find _and use_ the one and only
security whole to get access to the French military and your private
mails and data, than to find one of the thousands security wholes for a
MUA used by a handful of computer freaks and your private mails and
data.
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