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Originally Posted by TopBucksTrixxxia
My only question *and forgive my programming ignorance* but if it's open source, wouldn't that make it easier for people to crack and find holes in? Is there a way to keep it local and not available on the net?
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Ohhhhhh talk about a can of worms.
Open Source projects are way more secure than traditional "closed source" alternatives. Holes are found quickly and addressed publicly and fixes are provided almost instantly. Your average closed-source software company will have X amount of programmers, whereas an open source project can have literally tens of thousands of programmers going over the same code.
Examples? Internet Explorer versus Firefox, which has more security issues? Windows versus Linux or FreeBSD... Microsoft has been caught hiding security holes for months on end whereas a hole discovered in a product like Apache or Sendmail is addressed instantly and published on tons of sysadmin-based news channels.
