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Elias Levy, SecurityFocus 2000-04-17

Is Open Source really more secure than closed? Elias Levy says there's a little security in obscurity.

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Re: Is Open Source really more secure than closed? 2000-04-17
Anonymous
Interesting assertions. Do you have any examples of OSS

security breeches _where the source code helped_ more

recent than the Morris Worm and the login/pcc hack? Say,

within the last 5 years?

More to the point, do you have as many such examples as

we have seen security breeches from MSFT in ...

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