[luau] NEWS: Too much or little trust in Open Source?

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Mon Apr 1 03:23:15 PST 2002


Following the recent security holes in OpenSSH, PHP and zlib, ZDNet wrote
this article basically saying that Open Source leads to security holes.

Too much trust in open source?
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-864256.html

Bernhard "Bero" Rosenkränzer of Red Hat wrote this rebuttal, talking mainly
about the "I can fix it myself" benefit in Open Source security.

Too little trust in Open Source?
http://www.bero.org/rebuttals/security.html

Bero could have said more about the "many eyes" theory and point out the
success of OpenBSD.  What do you think?






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