the proprietary advantage?

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Author: Rob Wultsch
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Subject: the proprietary advantage?
technomage wrote:
>
> 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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As did I.

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