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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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potentialities and realities 2000-04-18
David Terrell <dbt (at) meat (dot) net [email concealed]>
"The fact is that closed source inhibits strong proactive security auditing and Open Source enables it..."

Yes and no. Open Source enables public scrutiny. But it doesn't demand or imply it. There's plenty of Linux software out there that could use a good security audit, but it's not being don...

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