Open Source or Open Sesame?

Posted by dave on Apr 10, 2004 6:32 AM EDT
The Age; By Leon Brooks
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Open Source policies not only reduce the risk of back-dooring by empowering customers and potential customers to audit the software themselves, but they also reduce the incentive for back-dooring by making it more likely that any perpetrator will be caught, and in that event “everybody” would know what and how that had been done by whom. Consequently, back-dooring in serious Open Source projects is very rare.

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