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Originally Posted by Sregener
At a fundamental level, it is the philosophy behind the software that makes Linux safer. This is for a few reasons.
First, the code is not secret. That means that many security flaws are quickly discovered, because many eyes can see them.
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Nothing short of heaven is perfect, but Linux's security through openness has been a winning formula for years and will continue to be so.
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That's kind of the open source mantra, but I'm skeptical. The Shellshock vulnerability has existed since 1992. Heartbleed was published, reviewed, accepted as a standard...and a huge weakness was not discovered for two years.