Is Open Source Security a Myth?

The article presents the results of a study which investigated the vulnerabilities and security patches of 17 open source and closed source software packages. It found that vendor policy was more significant for security than the difference between open and closed source. The Linux and Microsoft Win...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 54; no. 5; pp. 130 - 141
Main Author:	Schryen, Guido
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery May2011
Subjects:	Computer security Open source software Computer software Data protection Data security Computer operating systems Software architecture
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