The Insecurity of Security Software
Found on Slashdot on Saturday, 18 June 2005
BusinessWeek is reporting that, despite a number of software products meant to safeguard Windows PCs from harm, a rising number of them endanger their hosts because of poor design and flaws. From the article: 'A new Yankee Group report, to be released June 20, shows the number of vulnerabilities found in security products increasing sharply for the third straight year -- and for the first time surpassing those found in all Microsoft products.'
That's why it's important to let people test the software and expose all flaws. It's impossible to stop people from trying to exploit a software product. However, if it's not allowed to publish the bugs, they will remain unfixed. That's by far more dangerous. If you keep that in mind and look at France, where it is illegal to publish bugs found by reverse-engineering, then that makes you wonder why someone should use french software.