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  • From: "Michael D. Thomas" <mdthomas AT mindspring.com>
  • To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: U.S. military under attack
  • Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 00:45:18 -0400




>
> "But the effort may have backfired. A May 10 report prepared for the
> Defense Department concluded that open source often results in more secure,
> less expensive applications and that, if anything, its use should be
expanded."

Gartner agrees.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25291.html

<snip/>
Gartner analyst John Pescatore writes : "a strategy of relying on security
through obscurity (hiding source code) has already proven a failure for
Microsoft. To make future products more trustworthy, Microsoft will have to
become more expert at developing code that can withstand external review."
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