Roger Markus a écrit :
It is reported that the US Department of Homeland Security is spending $1.24
million to "hunt for security bugs in open-source software"....
From a "spin" standpoint, you have to wonder why the government is spending
$1.24 million to "hunt for security bugs in open-source software",
Because it's OSS so the source is available and it can pay someone to
look at it instead of signing piles of NDAs with numerous closed
software vendors to find problems and then lobby for years to get them
fixed.
It's purely opportunistic, doesn't mean OSS is less safe, just that it
can be secured cheaply (guess which software the US Department of
Homeland Security will recommend afterwards, the one they got secured or
closed products they could never assess)
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Nicolas Mailhot
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