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Re:Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to Evade ... by infinity0 on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @06:51AM (#7591168)
How would you have found the bug without it being open source? You think companies pay for these open public audits on proprietary software?
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Re:Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to Evade ... by sp332 on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @11:06AM (#7592194)
The vulnerability was first found by a fuzzer, which would have worked equally well on closed-source software. And I believe the fuzz tester (part of Codenomicon's "Defensics") is also closed-source.
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Re:Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to Evade ... by infinity0 on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @06:22PM (#7594695)
You misunderstand - how would the public have found out about the results of that audit? There is no incentive to release this information for a closed product; very much the opposite.
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