In the early days of commercial open source, major vendors cast doubt on its security, claiming transparency was a flaw. In fact, that openness fueled strong communities and faster security improvements, making OSS often more secure than proprietary code. Today, a new kind of misinformation has emerged, the opposite of FUD: it downplays real open source security risks that should raise concern. The biggest security fallacy today is that Linux namespaces are security boundaries. From … More →

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