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Security Portal, March 29, 2000 |
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Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to |
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refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims |
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Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular |
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Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br> |
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review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD |
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is that proof."</b> (his emphasis) |
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