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Is Open-Source Security Software Safe?
Alex Salkever, Business Week 2001-12-11

Companies such as Guardent are so sure it is that they're building entire corporate product lines around it

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Is Open-Source Security Software Safe? 2001-12-12
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
The article seems to miss some prominent uses of Open Source software in the security area. For example:

- Watchguard's Firebox which is based around Linux using netfilter (which they pay the author to improve)

- IPSO software used by Nokia which is really a hardened OpenBSD in which they base...

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