From: Tony Williams 

Geo. wrote:
> "Tony Williams"  wrote in message
> news:3DE7AAB4.7010606{at}blarg.net...
>
>
>>That's where the open source peer-review comes into play. If I publish a
>>fix for a security exploit you can safely bet that it's going to be
>>widely scrutinised. As opposed to a closed source fix where you're back
>>to having only the vendor's word to rely on.
>
>
> are the same people who widely scrutinized the original module that has the
> "security exploit" going to be doing the scrutinizing of the fix?
>

I would think so, as well as others who know their track record...

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Tony

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