the proprietary advantage?

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Author: Alan Dayley
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Subject: the proprietary advantage?
technomage wrote:

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>>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.
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>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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>

They recently were mentioned and linked on slashdot. Perhaps they could
not take the load and were "slashdotted" of the air. I got there early
and the software looked interesting and legit. They scan the binary
machine code for known problems like buffer over-flows and other
possible "holes." Sounds difficult to program but not impossible.

Alan