Red Hat's Cox warns on open source security

Thursday, October 26 2006 @ 01:58 PM EDT

Contributed by: sde

Linux developer and Red Hat veteran Alan Cox urges caution to those who think Linux security is foolproof.

Alan Cox, one of the most respected figures in the UK open source community, has warned of complacency over the security of open source projects.

Speaking to delegates at London's LinuxWorld conference on Wednesday, he emphasised that considerable sums of money were being spent to try and hack into open source systems.

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