Is Open-Source Really Safer?
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The usually simmering debate about open-source versus closed-source recently boiled over, following the leak of Microsoft Windows source code on the Internet. And it boiled over here too. After I wrote a column for one of PC Magazine's sister sites about the Windows source code leak and what it might reveal about the value of closed-source code as a security technique, 95 percent of the responses said that I didn't get the point: Open-source, being open, gets a better code review. Anyone can get the source, look at it, and find problems in it.
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