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A comment on Apple's SSL/TLS bug.

Re:Apple's SSL/TLS bug by IBM on Saturday February 22, 2014 @08:40AM (#7282020)
If only it was open source this never would have happened.
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Re:Apple's SSL/TLS bug by crishoj on Saturday February 22, 2014 @08:48AM (#7282032)
Here's the link to the open-sourced file, taken from the article: http://opensource.apple.com/source/Security/Security-55471/l...
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Re:Apple's SSL/TLS bug by crishoj on Saturday February 22, 2014 @08:46AM (#7282029)
Is that sarcastic? The code in question is Open Source.
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Re:Apple's SSL/TLS bug by gojomo on Saturday February 22, 2014 @08:45AM (#7282028)
Once eyeballs are thinly spread over enough projects, all bugs are deep again.
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Re:Apple's SSL/TLS bug by throwawaykf05 on Saturday February 22, 2014 @10:03AM (#7282213)
In what possible reality was this not the inevitable outcome? The "enough eyeballs" aphorism makes for a nice soundbite but in practice was always a red herring.
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Re:Apple's SSL/TLS bug by wreegab on Saturday February 22, 2014 @09:44AM (#7282157)
Clearly sarcasm. With open source, it is not a matter of whether these mistakes (or whatever this one was) happen or not, it is a matter of likelihood of these mistakes being spotted. It's a statistical thing. It's unfortunate this has to be explained.
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