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"Many Eyes" still wins

"Many Eyes" still wins

Posted May 17, 2008 8:11 UTC (Sat) by PO8 (guest, #41661)
In reply to: Impact of the Debian OpenSSL vulnerability by freethinker
Parent article: Impact of the Debian OpenSSL vulnerability

What makes you think this bug *ever* would have been found by anyone other than particularly
clever miscreants in a proprietary system?  There are few people looking for similar bugs in
closed SW, and even fewer that have any motivation to do anything other than conceal these
bugs when they find them.

As far as I know, this bug was finally found when Bello noticed a bad patch had been applied,
and was able to diagnose the resulting weakness by inspecting the source.  Other than that,
"many eyes" hasn't helped at all here...


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