Insecurity by Obscurity
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| Consider, on this, what Bruce Schneier says in the introduction to the
| second edition of his Applied Cryptography...
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| That's the simple answer: open source lets developers see their methods
| and their code as others see them - enabling them to understand and correct
| vulnerabilities that might well be invisible to people working in more
| proprietary environments.
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| And it's also, of course, the ultimate reason obscurity is a very poor
| form of defence.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=855
Another little (and new) gem:
The Top 15 most colorful, controversial Microsoft statements ever
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| 6. Ballmer on Linux's uh, health problems:
| "Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that
| attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it
| touches. That's the way that the license works."
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| [...]
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| 8. Gates on his customers:
| "Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider
| Monkey."
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/14796&ts0hb=&story=ht
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