Trend Micro Chairman Says Open Source Is a Security Risk

dkd903 writes "Steve Chang, the Chairman of Trend Micro, has kicked up a controversy by claiming that open source software is inherently less secure than closed source. When talking about the security of smartphones, Chang claimed that the iPhone is more secure than Android because being an open-source platform lets attackers know more about the underlying architecture." This comes a week after Trend Micro released a mobile security app for Android.

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Re:Security through obscurity doesn't work

[commodore64_love]

He is technically-correct:
Open source lets dishonest people search for flaws to exploit. BUT he overlooks that closed-source companies like Microsoft are slow to fix problems (often going years before fixing known bugs), so they are oftentimes Less safe than open source, due to inertia.

The ideal would probably be closed source (so thieves can't see the flaws), and a company that fixes bugs immediately after discovery. In the real world no such thing exist..... except possibly OS 10.x by Apple who fix bugs at a rapid rate.