On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 23:56, O Plameras wrote: > Common sense will tell us that Open Source is rigorously audited by its > nature. > And it is a simple process to catch security breaches even by using simple > tools like "diff", etc.
What are you auditing for? - Breach of copyright - potential security holes that can be exploited (aka black hats) - potential bugs that can damage your use of software - ??? diff is somewhat useful for the first but not the other two. There are automated tools that can help with the second. Note help is an operative word here. It takes diligence for the second, how many applications have you carefully reviewed before using it. I certainly have not. The third takes pure diligence and testing. -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
