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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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good analysis... 2000-04-17
Anonymous
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but the strengths in having source code are:

1 - problem can be solved (nearly) immediately

2 - more likely to notice other holes while fixing

existing hole.

it is true that most don't (moreover, can't) audit every

line of code running on their system, however, it only

takes...

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