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February 27, 2006
Security & Source Code
Pete Finnigan recently featured a mention about Scott McNealy's comment about how Open Source is important to solving Security problems. Also it's amusing McNealy's potshot at Oracle, near the bottom of the article.
In affect it's all about auditing of what by whom. The more critical eyes on the code, the more bugs and potential problems that can be solved.
Bruce Schneier has a good discussion of this where he concludes that although Open Source certainly does not guarentee you're going to have better security, it certainly has that potential and tendency.
Posted by admin at February 27, 2006 11:49 PM