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"Many eyes" argument a bit over hyped
While the source code to many open source projects is readily available (goes with the territory). It takes a certain skill set as well as out and out verve to go make sense of it all and do something useful with it.

Also, code that deals with SSL certificates is far more specialized and also an area you're likely to have even FEWER eyes than the much more common "buffer overflow" problem. In the case of the latter you can actually write tools to look for certain patterns in the source code where such an exploit might exist.
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Before the NBMers weigh in  AbsolutelyNot | 07/27/04
but but but but but  Squawkbox | 07/27/04
Sort of  prong@... | 07/27/04
odd  eLurker | 07/28/04
IE's secutity holes MORE SEVERE than Firefox's  Peter Reaper | 07/29/04
hmmmm  zijiang | 07/27/04
"Many eyes" argument a bit over hyped  betelgeuse68 | 07/27/04
many eyes did not inspect the security model  Harry Butts | 07/28/04
still beats IE by miles....  nikster | 07/27/04
Just wait  PmAc_z | 07/28/04
track record...  ryusen | 07/28/04
This actually shows 'many eyes' at work  Amberhawk | 07/28/04
Wrong  Loverock Davidson | 07/28/04
Need I remind you?  AbsolutelyNot | 07/28/04
I guess so  Loverock Davidson | 07/28/04
yes you are  ryusen | 07/28/04
re: your question  ryusen | 07/28/04
So, what's the score. About 6 to 44,258 ?  BitTwiddler | 07/28/04
Whew! Good thing it's not tied into the OS or anything!  Xunil_Sierutuf | 07/28/04
Mozilla to squash security bugs  Loverock Davidson | 07/28/04
Hey, That's completely Unfair  el1jones | 07/28/04
hell...  ryusen | 07/28/04
Used mainly on Windows  voska | 07/28/04
yeah, IE just puts old exploits back in..  Monkey_MCSE | 07/28/04
wasnt that  eLurker | 07/28/04
a couple had them yes  Monkey_MCSE | 07/28/04
actually, no  eLurker | 07/28/04
if you are talking abotu the "shell"  ryusen | 07/28/04
no  eLurker | 07/28/04
How about the 'other' side  AmusedAtItAll | 07/28/04
I'm not an MS Basher  skeptic tank | 07/28/04
You match the criteria.. now come over to the bash side!  Xunil_Sierutuf | 07/28/04
Any exploits of these vulns?  Eggs Ackley_z | 07/28/04
Astro boy takes to the SKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  chiwawa | 07/28/04
Technically  skeptic tank | 07/28/04
Nice that it can affect without being OS reliant, really open  FilledOut | 07/28/04
Hey, don't leave out bashers from Apple  FilledOut | 07/28/04
It'll be fixed before MS fixes IE  CobraA1 | 07/28/04
Might want to read the headlines  nikoli | 07/30/04

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