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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 is not a silver bullet 2000-09-06
Your friendly neighborhood software developer
Linux is open source, but has a number of security issues as pointed out in BugTraq, so I don't think that open source is silver bullet. I can't think of any software that isn't without security issues. It took 2 years for people to discover the 'issues' around brown orifice. This is an indicatio...

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