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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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Some good points... 2000-04-17
Anonymous
but the topic of the Sendmail debug hole is a bit of a strawman.

Face it: a large part of the reason that hole remained dangerous for so long is that the sendmails in question were vendor supplied code on binary-only machines, and the vendors simply never saw fit to fix the problem. I'd venture ...

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