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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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You've made several critical mistakes in your comment. 2000-04-17
Bruce Perens <bruce (at) perens (dot) com [email concealed]>
Hi Elias,

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I'd like to point out a few problems with your comment.

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The Gauntlet firewall published by Trusted Information Systems was not an

Open Source program. It's what we call "disclosed source-code", and that's

very important because that difference means that nobody had much reaso...

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