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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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Amazing who __finds__ the holes in Windows 2001-04-13
Will
Review the MS Security bulletins. Note that most are

credited not to Microsoft's own QA staff, but by third

parties, who don't have access to the source to close

the hole before it's disseminated.

If this is what internal vetting fails to pick up, just

imagine the scale of the mistakes they...

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