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Closed source & Secutiry (was: Re: Smooth wall - more detailed)
- To: Dani Arbel <darbel(at-nospam)techunix.technion.ac.il>
- Subject: Closed source & Secutiry (was: Re: Smooth wall - more detailed)
- From: Alon Altman <alon(at-nospam)vipe.technion.ac.il>
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 22:35:21 +0300 (IDT)
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On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Dani Arbel wrote:
> Alon,
> Where did you get this idea about closed source ?
> You can trust it just like you trust open source: use caerfuly and keep
> tuned for news/patches.
> Dani
But with closed source, you can't ever be sure there ain't backdoors that
were deliberately added to the software for the advantage of the closed
source developers. See for example, Microsoft "registration wizard" and
other deliberate backdoors such as the noturious "NSA key".
Open source software is checked by experts around the world to ensure its
security and thus disallowing the original producer to put in malicious code
or backdoor. That's why I never use closed-source products when security is
a concern.
Alon
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