[ Thanks to Ng Kai
Hoe Raymond for this link. ]
“The open source philosophy, the philosophy of technological
advancement through sharing, peer perusal and modification of
source code implementation of software, lends itself very well to
building of a secure server. The main reason is that, by
virtue of the availability of source code implementation, any bug,
security hole and trapdoors are quickly noticed and patched.”
“There is however a very popular myth which stops adoption of
open source as the main developmental philosophy of secure servers
, that the implementation of a secure server has to be kept secret
for the server to remain secure.”
“Nothing can be further from the truth, to dispell the myth, let
me state 3 very important points.”