Author: JT Smith
From SecurityFocus.com (via The Register): “Conventional wisdom has long held that open source software garners extra security from the sheer number of people who are free to review the code — “Many eyes make all bugs shallow,” the adage goes. The reality is often different; it turns out many of those eyes have little interest in the thankless task of examining other people’s code for security holes.
But now the “many eyes” school of software security may become more than a theory, thanks to a reward system devised by a Oregon-based computer scientist and funded by the U.S. Defense Department …”
Category:
- Linux
