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FCC Rules Open Source Code Is Less Secure

Posted by Zonk on from the tell-that-to-apache dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A new federal rule set to take effect Friday could mean that software radios built on 'open-source elements' may have trouble getting to market. Some US regulators have apparently come to the conclusion that, by nature, open source software is less secure than closed source. 'By effectively siding with what is known in cryptography circles as "security through obscurity," the controversial idea that keeping security methods secret makes them more impenetrable, the FCC has drawn an outcry from the software radio set and raised eyebrows among some security experts. "There is no reason why regulators should discourage open-source approaches that may in the end be more secure, cheaper, more interoperable, easier to standardize, and easier to certify," Bernard Eydt, chairman of the security committee for a global industry association called the SDR (software-defined radio) Forum, said in an e-mail interview this week.'"

3 of 365 comments (clear)

  1. The FEDS by zoomshorts · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ALL the Federally APPOINTED people , are BUSH supporters, and they fail to know the law!
    We know who they are , and ignorance of the law is no excuse. BINGO !!!

  2. Bring 'Em On: +1, Hyperpatriotic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    What do you expect from a branch of the Military-Industrial-CONGRESSIONAL Complex?

    The U.S.A. has collapsed. The criminals (a.k.a your elected federal officials) just don't want to announce it to the brain-dead U.S. adult
    population.

    Have a Bush_Cheney_Rice_Rove-Free Weekend.

    Cheers,
    Kilgore Trout

  3. Re:Amusing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So where is the _open_ alternatives that does the same job?

    Perhaps it's the use case, not the obscurity, that is flawed?