Falling Apart at the Seams

Falling Apart at the Seams
Kathleen Ellis and Jon Lasser, SecurityFocus 2000-09-04

Last month's Brown Orifice program opened a backdoor to an insecure future. Can open source save the day?

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Mike Crist

I disagree. In my observations, security flaws are more readily located in Open Source vs. Clsode Source software. Even assuming they aren't, surely no one can claim that Open Source flaws are not remedied faster on average than Closed Source. There's plenty of empirical evidence to support that.

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