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-- JohnPowerHely - 02 Oct 2008
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 The other great advantage to open source is that once a security vulnerability is discovered, you don't have to wait for someone else to fix it for you. You don't have to reveal anything about your use of the system to a potentially untrustworthy third party, or rely on a fix you can't verify at the level of the code.

-- AndreiVoinigescu - 03 Oct 2008

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>		I think the most important advance in OS security in the last ten years was the development for NSA of Security Enhanced (SE) Linux. Mitre produced for NSA, under GPL, for public distribution, a comprehensive set of modifications deeply integrating into the kernel a set of mandatory access control, role-based access control and type enforcement facilities. The SE Linux security enhancements are now part of the stock kernel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, Ubuntu, and several other Linux distributions. Openness made it possible for NSA to move experimental security technology results from Fluke straight into the production environment of servers around the world, in a fully accountable and verifiable fashion. Nothing the monopoly has done in partial rectification of all the insecurity, spying and criminality it has made possible even comes close.

-- EbenMoglen - 03 Oct 2008

 
 
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