[Am-info] Could open source be more secure?

[Fred A. Miller]

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Could open source be more secure?=20

That's the statement being posed in the article "Open Source Security: Be=
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Protection at a Lower Cost" on NewsForge. Author Steve Schlesinger also l=
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his vocie to those who say that because open-source software is cheaper,=20
smaller companies could afford to add security software to more of their=20
assets, rather than only those they think are the most ciritical and the =
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vulnerable. He also maintains that open source is more secure because it =
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under continuous peer review and less likely to have flaws, and when secu=
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holes are found, they are more quickly patched.

http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,77387,00.h=
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