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To: JRandomFreeper
We'll never know.

But it does show how open source is more secure than closed source.

4 posted on 10/10/2013 1:02:14 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce

“But it does show how open source is more secure than closed source.”

Yes, in one way it is. In another way, it isn’t.

If a flaw does get past the many eyes of the open source community, into the code, then it sits there waiting for anyone to notice it and exploit it. With closed source, such a flaw would need to be found more by trial and error.


6 posted on 10/10/2013 1:05:15 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: ShadowAce
Yep. Back in the day when I was actually contributing, I was VERY narrow in my focus, just a few hundred lines of code. It makes it easy to see something out of place.

/johnny

9 posted on 10/10/2013 1:15:25 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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