On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 08:43:07PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 11:59:04AM -0400, Mike M wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 09:20:07AM -0400, Paul wrote: > > > Closed source might delay the cracker but it also delays pre-crack and > > > post-crack countermeasures. > > What's the alternative? Open source? Cracking is unnecessary with open > > source. > Search a bit about "security by obscurity". Basically if the security of > your system depends on a secret you can't easily change, it will get > exposed sooner or later. So you should design it to withstand such > leakage. E.g: change a password if it was exposed.
As this was related to Mastercard/Visa, they can allow open source, however the software has to be certified to meet their security specs, which may be harder to accomplish for open source. Steve -- NetTek Ltd Fax +44-(0)20 7483 2455 Skype / In stevekennedyuk / UK +442088167166 / US +13106518226 Vonage UK +442079932612 / US +13108577715 / UK mob 07775 755503 Personal Blog http://stevekennedy.blogspot.com Euro Tech News Blog http://eurotechnews.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
