Study: Open, closed source equally secure (News.com)

A Cambridge University researcher presented a paper Thursday to a conference in Toulouse, France, where he argued that proprietary software should be as secure as free software. "In his paper, computer scientist Ross Anderson used an analysis that equates finding software bugs to testing programs for the mean time before failure, a measure of quality frequently used by manufacturers. Under the analysis, Anderson found that his ideal open-source programs were as secure as the closed-source programs."

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