[ale] Security and OSS

[Dustin Puryear]

As far as "conflating bugs with security flaws", I think the two are generally highly related with the exception that security flaws can sometimes be the result of a design issue or a specific bug (implementation issue).

In other words, I think you can generally relate the two.

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-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Pete Hardie
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 6:52 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] Security and OSS

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 18:29, scott boss <scott at sboss.net> wrote:
> I still think the many eyes is true.  Now there will always be fringe
> products that won't.

While I took exception to the article for conflating bugs with
security flaws, there are still
more eyes able to see OSS code than proprietary code.

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