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Is information security less hard in an open source system? [on hold]

In the excellent article Why Information Security is Hard - An Economic Perspective, Ross Anderson poses that: ... you can make the security critical part of the system small enough that the bugs ...
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MediaTek MT7610U (RT2860) driver won't compile

I just bought a USB wi-fi dongle using the MediaTek MT7610U (RT2860) chipset, and the drivers from their website: http://www.mediatek.com/en/downloads1/downloads/mt7610u-usb/ won't compile, with this ...
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What is “Source Code For a Script”?

I am brand new to the Unix/Linux world and have a very rudimentary question for you. I am working on writing a shell script and towards the end we are told to "copy your source code for your script ...
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problem in installing ejabberd 14.07

i installed ejabberd 14.07 from source code on debian7 according to below url: http://www.process-one.net/docs/ejabberd/guide_en.html . i create admin account successfully but i can't access web ...
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Applying patch for bash failing

The bash shell in my production box is vulnerable to 'bashbug' vulnerability. https://securityblog.redhat.com/2014/09/24/bash-specially-crafted-environment-variables-code-injection-attack/ The ...
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Downloading distro source

I'm using LDME, a Debian based distro. Is there someway, preferably automatic, where one could download the source to everything that might be executed and everything needed by those executables? I'd ...