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Apple Cites Open Source Core Security

Posted by pudge on from the you-wily-software-vet-you dept.

ChilyMack writes "In a CNet article, Apple senior vice president Bertrand Serlet says, 'A lot of security problems derive from the core ... [With open source code,] thousands of people look at the critical portions of source code and ... check those portions are right. It's a major advantage to have open-source code.'"

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  1. Re:It's the open source! by Frequency+Domain · · Score: 5, Insightful
    95% of users are using Windows, making it, not Mac OS X with its market share smaller than that of Linux, a high value target.
    By that logic Apache should have more exploits than Microsoft's web server, since Apache has the major market share. Since that's not so, it seems that vulnerability is a bigger factor than market share when it comes to picking targets.