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RE:- At least if it came from [let's say] Microsoft, Oracle, Google
Why?

None of these with the possible exception of Google has a Stellar Security Record. With M$ it's a great month if there are only 8 Hot Fixes to apply and quite often many more that can have been reported up to 5 years previously and M$ has never got around to fixing till now.

With all Closed Source you have no idea what "Backdoor? Buggy? Amateur coding [in some cases]? Foreign developed?" problems exist or what Holes are already known and we are not told about.

Security through Obscurity is no security at all. wink

Col
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Posted by HAL 9000
14th Feb 2012