Tue, 03 Jun 2008

Interview in El País on Debian's OpenSSL incident

Last week's edition of Ciberpaís included a lengthy article which tried to explain Debian's and Ubuntu's OpenSSL problem to unexperienced computer users, it's impact, what should people do and what happens next.

Mercè Molist sent in a few questions for me to answer, a small part of which were used in the article. While I don't like a few bits of the article that much, I tried my best to make it clear that Debian is not a bunch of clueless and careless Free Software enthusiasts. The treatment that the incident had in some well known Spanish security-related websites was in my opinion deplorable, so I want to thank Mercè for the opportunity to clarify some of the Debian bashing.

I expect the full interview will be published either here or at Mercè's website in the following days.

http://ww2.grn.es/merce/2008/entrevistadebian.html (interview)

and

http://ww2.grn.es/merce/2008/debian.html (article or part of it)

Posted by Toni Corvera at Thu Jun 5 13:57:21 2008

Yup, I'll bring this to the front somehow.

Posted by Jordi at Wed Jun 11 20:19:55 2008