Re: tlug: The Myth of Open Source Security

[simon@example.com (Simon Cozens)]

Subba Rao (lists.tlug):

>For the sake of discussion, here is an interesting article on Open
>source security.
>http://developer.earthweb.com/journal/techfocus/052600_security.html

Well, he draws a lot of very general points out of his own relatively
small project, written in a relatively unpopular programming language -
no, that's not a dig at Python, it's something he acknowledges himself.
He never refers to OpenBSD and the OpenBSD source audit, nor the Linux
Security Audit project. And he misses out the obvious conclusion: open
source projects are not *magically* secure - someone still has to do
the work. With closed source projects, you don't even have the option.

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