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Microsoft: Closed source is more secure
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2001-04-12

Redmond's security response chief warns the RSA Conference of the perils of open source.

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Is Microsoft code more secure than open alternatives? 2001-04-13
Larry Fahnoe <fahnoe (at) FahnoeTech (dot) com [email concealed]>
Mr Lipner states that Microsoft has extensive software testing devoted to security issues, and that

because such testing is both boring and expensive it is not likely to be done well outside of the

commercial software development environment. Fine, I'm pleased to hear that Microsoft conducts

te...

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