Openness and Security on Campus

djeaux writes "The April issue of Syllabus includes an interview with Jeff Schiller, Network Manager at MIT, about openness and security in academic computing. Schiller has some interesting things to say about product liability for software, including an out for open source software and boils security down to a simple maxim: You must install patches. He also says that what makes security hard is that it's a 'negative deliverable.'"

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OpenNess???

[YoDave]

When I first read the title I wondered what the heck OpenNess was. I almost went to sourceforge and searched for it.