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The next big thing is cybersecurity but what does it mean for us?
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| Dan acknowledged that some people had a hard time understanding how open
| source software could be secure. “There is a perceived risk of open source
| from a security standpoint, people are very concerned about using software
| and it’s either “I don’t know where it comes from”, or “what backdoors have
| been put in the software”. I think it is largely a red herring, people don’t
| know where their proprietary software was written either nor do they know
| where the backdoors are in that. In open source, there is usually very
| robust version control, and you can see every line of code where it came
| from, who put it there and who made changes to it. The ability to do that
| inspection and do security audits is much greater in open source than in
| proprietary software”. About the issue of foreign involvement and where the
| software is written – at least in Defense – with respect to influence and
| control, Dan pointed out that in most cases we have no idea where proprietary
| software is written either, and buying from a US company does not mean that
| it was written here.
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http://www.examiner.com/x-10080-DC-EGovernment-Examiner~y2009m6d19-The-next-big-thing-is-Cybersecurity-but-what-does-it-mean-for-us
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What Myth Do You Want To Kill Today?
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| Think for yourself for a change. Stop to think that upwards to 70 percent of
| the Internet runs on Linux. Is that obscure? If what you say were true,
| wouldn't the Internet be brought to its knees on a daily basis? If it were
| Microsoft servers running the show, it may very well be. The fact that Linux
| exists gives you a stable environment to dwell on the Internet. I'd be a bit
| more respectful and check my facts before I went leaving public record of my
| ignorance. What you say or do on the Internet never goes away. Carla should
| have posted those comments.
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http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/06/linux-security-through-obscurity-fini.html
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