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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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His arguments contradict each other! 2001-04-19
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The two main points of the discussion are:

(1) The public can't be trusted with source code because our software reviewers are trained, paid professionals. Nobody else is competent to find bugs and security holes.

(2) The public can't be trusted with source code because they'll find bugs and sec...

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