Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 12, 2002 10:27 AM
You actively trying to find and fix bugs, there you have it. The more you found, the more you fixed. The source code is there to see.
Try find bugs in closed sourced binary. Eyes to the proprietary source is hundred thoundsands to 1 when comparing to source code open for the world to see. No one should be suprised to see less bugs are "FOUND" in proprietary binaries. Yet, bugs are found by examining the anomaly of the software behaviour or simply by chance.
Not just the vendor, users tend to ignore security issues for their own reasons, thats why OLD exploits on windows worked.
If you keep your head in the sand you will not see this.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 12, 2002 10:27 AMTry find bugs in closed sourced binary. Eyes to the proprietary source is hundred thoundsands to 1 when comparing to source code open for the world to see. No one should be suprised to see less bugs are "FOUND" in proprietary binaries. Yet, bugs are found by examining the anomaly of the software behaviour or simply by chance.
Not just the vendor, users tend to ignore security issues for their own reasons, thats why OLD exploits on windows worked.
If you keep your head in the sand you will not see this.
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