Open Source Security: Still A Myth

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."

Comments

Securitey

[whitelabrat]

Looks like geeks with spelling skills are still a Myth too?

Closed source speel chacker

[w.p.richardson]

Still as much of a myth as "Securitey"?

Go team go!

[Maagma]

Securitey, it's like 'Security' but with an extra 'e' for effort!

Open Source Security - Still A Myth

[irbdavid]

Microsoft Security - Still A Joke.

Eyeballs

[sulli]

he does not believe those eyeballs are looking for security problems in a structured way.

That's because their eyeballs are falling out looking at it.slashdot.org.

Dammit

[GauteL]

You will respect my securitey!

ooo boy

[megarich]

ooh no, my open source stuff is unsafe! better switch to i.e. and outlook now before its too late!

Re:Still...

[danheretic]

Was this OS/2?

Re: your sig

[DunbarTheInept]

Re: your sig: I see an even worse one at our local supermarket:

"Warning: May contain traces of peanuts or peanut oil".

Where was this label found? On a glass jar...of peanuts. Keep in mind it was a see-through glass jar, making it obvious even to people who can't read, that it is a jar of freakin' peanuts.

My take on it: The warning was telling us that it might be a jar of fake peanut substitutes, by saying that the jar mearly MAY contain peanuts, instead of saying that it definately did.