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Open Source Security: Still A Myth

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-think-about dept.

jpkunst writes "John Viega (coauthor of a.o. Building Secure Software) argues in Open Source Securitey: Still A Myth at O'Reilly's onlamp.com that "open source software may currently be less secure than its commercial counterparts.". According to him, there may be "more eyeballs" looking at open source software, but he does not believe those eyeballs are looking for security problems in a structured way."

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  1. Re:Still... by black+mariah · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    When was the last time that a Linux patch installed a firewall, and fixed several bugs that dipshit programmers were using as 'features'?

    Anyway, you're simply falling back on the kind of pompous cock bullshit the guy that wrote the article was bitching about. Namely, the excessively childish "Well, M$ sucks so we don't have to do things right." Fucking idiot.

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