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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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Is the combination or the individual code itself to blame? 2000-09-06
Although in some cases I'd agree that linking modules designed for completely different purposes may be a bad thing security-wise, I still think it's the module itself that's to blame, not the linkage.

Look at the Java bug: The two problems were both in Java classes. While these classes were comp...

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