Open source vs closed source by themselves have no direct correlation to the security of the product. If you have a group of 5 guys all coding for the same open source product and they don't care about security at all, and make a lot of mistakes, that product is insecure. Same thing can happen with closed source development. They are development models, and that is it. The security of the product is only as good as the developers care to make it. All developers right now are humans, and humans make mistakes. Which means that no matter how good you think you are, you are going to screw up atleast once, and that is all it takes for an insecurity to pop up.

The whole argument that open source is more secure because open source developers care more is conjecture. I have never seen any statistical evidence that proves that open source developers care more, or vice-versa. Most of the time the people who get into these arguments are either open source or closed source developers/supporters and they are tooting their own horns.


nihil- That would be RISC. What type of ARM processor are you running in that machine?