Re: [SC-L] Open Source Code Contains Security Holes -- Open Source -- InformationWeek

2008-01-10 Thread Steven M. Christey
Another question is how many of the reported bugs wound up being false positives. Through casual conversations with some vendor (I forget whom), it became clear that the massive number of reported issues was very time-consuming to deal with, and not always productive. Of course this is no surpri

Re: [SC-L] Open Source Code Contains Security Holes -- Open Source -- InformationWeek

2008-01-10 Thread Gary McGraw
Good points Ken. I lurk on a top-secret open source list that has been discussing this since New Years. I posted an entry on Justice League with my partially formed opinion: http://www.cigital.com/justiceleague/2008/01/09/on-open-source/ I have also written a longer piece, which will be posted