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Originally posted by Hrqls
agree .. its quite critical ... but cant open source also be secure ?
i thought most secure webservers were linux based ? and linux (or unix) is open source ? |
Well, this is a case, IMHO, where you're dealing with people's lives (potentially, not literally as in life-support systems or something) and something a little more proprietary might be better. What that would be in your case, I have no idea, sorry to say. This is like the recent problems with the MSBlaster worm where there was a problem at a nuclear power plant because their internal, mission critical network was overloaded due to the worm (and the use of Windows on that particular network). So in that case, they should have had zero access to the outside, and definitely no Windows machines on the network.
Yes, probably the majority of webservers are linux / bsd based, but at most a webserver can cause your personal info or the credit card number stolen, not wreck a dozen cars at an intersection and kill 10 people...
Again, this is just my opinion, not preaching against using PHP or other opensource applications.
