“Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow” – Eric Raymond
> only obvious problems are easily caught. An issue that manifests itself only under very specific conditions or not in a way that is obvious to the end-user, can go undetected for a long time.
There are fundamental differences between bugs and security holes. Bugs are something everyone has an interest in fixing. If a bug rarely manifests itself - then it is not that much of a problem.
Security holes are things which some people scrupulously search for, and then sometimes keep secret, for their own ends. Sometimes people even try to create security holes where there are none ( http://lwn.net/Articles/57135 ).
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There are fundamental differences between bugs and security holes. Bugs are something everyone has an interest in fixing. If a bug rarely manifests itself - then it is not that much of a problem.
Security holes are things which some people scrupulously search for, and then sometimes keep secret, for their own ends. Sometimes people even try to create security holes where there are none ( http://lwn.net/Articles/57135 ).