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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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Netscape developers are weenies! 2000-04-17
Anonymous
As a matter of fact, there is no backdoor associated with the DVWSSR.dll that allows the reading of files on a web server. The problem was with incorrect directory permissions. The file did exactly what it was supposed to, and weenies had nothing to do with it.

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