
Brown-in: Open-source in-securities
June 2002: Linux-whistleblower Ken Brown issued a timely and controversial report questioning heady claims that open-source computer programs are more secure than their proprietary counterparts. Since then? "Open source security 'not good enough,' " Computerworld's Rodney Gedda wrote last spring. EE Times echoed: "Linux: Unfit for National Security." Recently, AdTI alumnus Keith Sheets updated the discussion in postings at Zdnet and Information Week, e.g. here.
|