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Relevant: "Symantec was prepared for the code to be posted at some point and has developed and distributed a series of patches since Jan. 23rd to protect pcAny
by 1880 15y ago
Relevant:
"Symantec was prepared for the code to be posted at some point and has developed and distributed a series of patches since Jan. 23rd to protect pcAnywhere users against known vulnerabilities." [1]
If I am understanding this correctly, there were existing and known vulnerabilities that are being patched now because the source was published?
It looks like open source does make software more secure :)
[1]: http://www.symantec.com/theme.jsp?themeid=anonymous-code-claims http://www.symantec.com/theme.jsp?themeid=anonymous-code-cla...
- lt 15y agoI think there's a good chance that these patches are for backdoors that would be discovered looking at the source. I await for someone brave enough to get the source and publish a security analysis.
- mahmud 15y agoNo reason the security analysis cann't be published anonymously as well.
- joejohnson 15y agoIf there are backdoors which would be exposed by viewing the source, then Symantec is using security through obscurity.
- setrofim_ 15y agoThis is full disclosure[1] principle in action, and why security experts actually like "hackers" like Anonymous[2]. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_disclosure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_disclosure [2]http://risky.biz/lulzsec http://risky.biz/lulzsec