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List:       sqlite-users
Subject:    Re: RE(1):  [sqlite] SQLite Advocacy
From:       Dick Davies <rasputnik () hellooperator ! net>
Date:       2005-01-31 20:45:29
Message-ID: 20050131204528.GC53832 () eris ! tenfour
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* Brass Tilde <brasstilde@insightbb.com> [0121 18:21]:
> > If you install MS SQL server you run a network based service that
> > is vulnerable to attack. If you run Sqlite you don't run any
> > service and thus are invulnerable (to network service based
> > infections).
> 
> Not relevant.  No reference to "network service based infections" was made
> in the original post.

Whether a reference is made or not, it's still relevant. If a server listens
to the network its potentially vulnerable, whereas sqlite is effectively a file,
so long as the host computer (or more accurately host account) is secured you
are safe.
 
> > Yes, any executable can be infected, but that's a meaningless statement
> > since you can't have any database without executable code.
> 
> Then saying that SQLite won't be a source of virus infections is also
> meaningless, since "you can't have any [SQLite] database without executable
> code," which executable code can be infected.

Yes, but since it's cross-platform, you can run it on something other than
windows, which like it or not is the number one cause and target of viruses
on the net today.


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