On Saturday 02 August 2003 02:05 pm, der.hans wrote:
> moin, moin,
>
> proprietary software vendors have claimed their products are more secure
> than Free Software because there's no source code to examine. They claim
> this means bad guys have to develop the exploit rather than just find an
> error. This is a process that supposedly takes longer and is harder to do.
>
> Now add in tools like BugScan, http://www.bugscaninc.com/, and any claims
> of security through obscurity by proprietary vendors just don't hold water.
the above mentioned webpage doesn't appear to exist (I got timeouts and bad
hostname errors trying to access it).
Mage
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