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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. slashdot spelling by TedCheshireAcad · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Open Source Securitey: Still A Myth

    Yeah, what is 'securitey' anyhow?

    1. Re:slashdot spelling by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      They fix that error, but didn't fix the affect/effect errors? (Not like I'm going to check)

  2. OMG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    NOOOO... say it isn't so!

  3. Re:OSS users/coders still close them up faster... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yep, just more racist propaganda from garcia. I'm not suprised.

  4. Re:Anti-homosexual bias in the Linux community by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Because most of us - being heterosexual, but never having actually been with a woman - are a little insecure about our sexuality.

    Making anti-gay comments makes us feel more manly.

    Nothing personal

  5. Rewards! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://cryptome.org/cia-rewards.htm

    Other stories:

    http://cryptome.org/leo-whosarat.htm

    Don't visit the Internet website www.whosarat.com . The site consists of a published list of government IP addresses, the names and photographs of law enforcement officers, and the names of confidential informants. Visiting the site could result in the compromise of government IP addresses. Searching the site for a particular name could result in that name being cross-indexed to the IP address of the computer used to make the inquiry. Searching for the names of officers or informants could compromise those individual's identities. Any website is capable of collecting IP address and search information from visitors, but this site is remarkable because it makes visitor information public. This published information could be used by criminals and/or terrorists to hinder law enforcement efforts and endanger officers and informants. Do not visit this or similar sites from computers that use a government IP address, and do not search this or similar sites for officer or informant names. (FPS Desk Officer, 13 Sep 04; HSOC 3353-04)

  6. Mod parent down by sokoban · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And in the land of Slashdot, irrelevant clichés are modded +4 insightful. That saying has nothing to do with the article and isn't funny, so what is it?

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    09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 is the magic number.
  7. Linux is Communism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    can Communism beat Capitalism?

  8. it.slashdot.org Color Contrast: No Longer a Myth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://shit.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/17/1 438208