Open source firmware is important for security
I have a completely honest question here that I'm hoping some people can answer. Is open source really more secure? My default answer would be yes absolutely but when I think about it I'm not sure I understand why.<p>If something is open source then bugs and security problems can be found more easily and then fixed. This sounds great to me and I'm sure that works out just fine most of the time. This makes me wonder though...are there really fewer intrusions into production systems that are built entirely on open source software than there are in ones built with lots of proprietary, closed source software? What does the data look like about this stuff?