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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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 54; no. 5; pp. 130 - 141
Autor principal: Schryen, Guido
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery May2011
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