[csw-maintainers] The source code of www.opencsw.org

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Fri Jul 24 00:01:49 CEST 2009


On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 04:29:13PM -0500, Mike Watters wrote:
> 
> Hi Phil
> Philip Brown wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 05:56:49PM +0200, Trygve Laugst?l wrote:
> >>> absolutely not "public".
> >> Why not?
> > 
> > security issues.
> > 
> 
> You are correct, as the code lies currently, there would be severe security
> issues in publishing the code.
> 
> however, with a few minor modifications, it would be quite possible.

And when changes are made in the future, more holes likely open up.
That is the way of source code.

Better for security to keep it local-visibility-only, if it doesnt need to
be fully public.

It doesnt need to be fully public.




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