The Register: Open and Closed Security are Roughly Equivalent

“Open and closed approaches to security are basically
equivalent, with opening a system up to inspection helping
attackers and defenders alike.

“That’s the surprising conclusion drawn by Cambridge don Ross
Anderson during a well-received talk to a Linux User Group at
London’s City University last night.

“Anderson has stepped into the debate–which can be near
religious at times–between those who believe either the closed
(Microsoft) or the open source model are best for security…”

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