Two articles about Red Hat/Dell's Security Summit in Washington. http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-10-30-012-26-SC-RH-PB
"'Open source allows us the opportunity to have a pro-active and pre-emptive identification of security holes by friendly analysis,' said Ken Linker of the Defense Information Systems Agency. He read the written presentation of Robert Walker, the program manager for the agency, which runs the software for a large portion of the department's command-and-control systems. "'As a result, this early identification and rapid repair of security vulnerabilities has become a major advantage of open source over more proprietary approaches to software development,' Linker read. The presentation was replete with positive references to the security advantages of open-source software..." (continued in the two articles)
