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Falling Apart at the Seams
Kathleen Ellis and Jon Lasser, SecurityFocus 2000-09-04

Last month's Brown Orifice program opened a backdoor to an insecure future. Can open source save the day?

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Open Source Solution 2000-09-05
Pete Kofod
While Open Source has many benefits, I believe the most over-sold yet empirically unproven one is improved security. Given the sheer amount of eyes inspecting current code, vulnerabilities should be getting zapped as quickly as they appear, yet many go undetected for a while. The reason they go un...

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