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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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Re: Bruce Parens' Defense of Open Source 2000-04-17
David Terrell <dbt (at) meat (dot) net [email concealed]>
Bruce:

How would you respond to the issues like: multiple wu-ftpd vunlerabilities,

userland-nfs mountd vulnerabilities, multiple remote root WU-imapd

vulnerabilities, and other security issues that have plagued linux

distributions for years?

You can pick on his specific examples, but I th...

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