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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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Auditing of compiled code not much harder ... 2000-04-17
Anonymous
I have to strongly disagree with a couple of statements

made in your article. Your estimation that in the time

someone audits one closed-source product he can audit

10 open-source programs is just a huge exagerration.

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