Title :
Open source in security: visiting the bizarre
Author :
Schneider, Fred B.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
Abstract :
Although open-source software development has virtues, there is reason to believe that the approach would not have a significant effect on the security of today´s systems. The lion´s share of vulnerabilities caused by software bugs is easily dealt with by means other than source code inspections. The tenets of open-source development are inhospitable to business models whose success depends on promoting secure systems
Keywords :
security of data; software engineering; business models; open-source software development; software bugs; source code inspections; system security; Application software; Computer bugs; Computer hacking; Computer science; Computer security; Government; Inspection; Investments; Open source software; Wheels;
Conference_Titel :
Security and Privacy, 2000. S&P 2000. Proceedings. 2000 IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Berkeley, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0665-8
DOI :
10.1109/SECPRI.2000.848477
