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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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Microsoft: Closed source is more secure FSVO secure 2001-04-13
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <shmuel (at) acm (dot) org [email concealed]>
In "Microsoft: Closed source is more secure", Kevin Poulsen quotes Steve Lipner

as saying "The vendor eyes in a security review tend to be dedicated, trained,

full time and paid," but Microsoft's track record for security problems suggests

otherwise. The open source community includes a number o...

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