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McAfee says it no longer will permit government source code reviews
- tareqak 9y agoTechmeme summary: Reuters: McAfee says it will no longer let governments review its source code, citing security concerns, following Symantec earlier this month
- thomastjeffery 9y ago> But security experts and former U.S. officials have said those inspections provide Russia with opportunities to find vulnerabilities that could be exploited in offensive cyber operations. That is entirely the point. The fear is that they would hide that vulnerability. The idea that anyone, including a Nation-State, would find it advantageous to find and hide security vulnerabilities is ludicrous. Hiding a vulnerability is advantageous to everyone who wants to use it, but disadvantageous to everyone who wants to be secure. The only way to keep a vulnerability secret is to be absolutely certain that no one else knows about it. That is simply not even remotely close to possible.