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Trend Micro Chairman Says Open Source Is a Security Risk

Posted by Soulskill on from the with-friends-like-these dept.

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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  1. Re:Security through obscurity doesn't work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Don't forget that the bad guys end up with the source code while the white hats don't get it. Take a look at Windows. The Chinese intel services have the source for it. Russia does too. However, people who need and rely the protection of the OS do not get the source code.

    So, the blackhats already have a leg up because they can clear-box their exploits. The whitehats have to keep disassembling stuff in order to have any hope whatsoever.

    Because MS doesn't trust people with the source code of their products, how can people trust them?