[TriLUG] Green Hills calls Linux 'insecure' for defense

[Rick DeNatale]

On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 23:51 -0400, Tanner Lovelace wrote:

> But, yeah, KT's hack was quite an elegant one. :-)  I still maintain
> that Open Source is generally more secure than closed source and
> it's much *harder* (although not impossible) to insert a back door
> in it.

Right, I was in no way agreeing with the "closed source is more secure"
pap from folks like Green Hills. 


On the other hand Open Source alone is not enough to ensure security.
It's a little like Winston Churchill's view of democracy.