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News: General 7/4/2000 15:16

Is Free Software Insecure?

PC Quest
Submitted By: Hari
Posted By: Dave Wreski
7/4/2000

Hari writes, "A quite interesting question addressed "which gives better security as a generic model of software development, open source or closed source software?" It goes on to list out some notable myths on the same and comes to a conclusion that there's really no reasonable way of implementing security except by peer review and public scrutiny."


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