“The first issue of Sage, a new security journal published by
McAfee’s Avert Labs, appears today and is available for download as
a PDF from the McAfee Web site. Dave Marcus, Security Research and
Communications Manager for McAfee’s Avert Labs, briefed NewsForge
on the publication’s launch, goals, and the content of the initial
issue last week. In that briefing, Marcus admitted there were some
‘controversial’ opinions contained in the inaugural issue, but said
they were not attempts to create FUD about open source. I’ve since
had a chance to review the first issue and have my own opinion
about that.“Three things are made clear in the first issue: First, there is
a financial motivation to today’s malware, which should be obvious
already. Second, McAfee Avert Labs thinks full disclosure is a bad
idea. Finally, and unfortunately, the Sage editorial staff feels it
is okay to conflate open source software development with the
security problems that plague the world of proprietary
software…”