Sentence examples for closed-source software from inspiring English sources

Closed-source software is easier for the NSA to backdoor than open-source software.

Because Immunity's clients are most concerned about systems running closed-source software such as Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Adobe Acrobat, and Sun's Java, Immunity's researchers attempt to exploit flaws in closed-source software within 24 hours of when they are first reported.

He argues that attackers might indiscriminately inundate a company's network with attacks on relatively unimportant open-source software, while focusing more serious attacks on more important systems running closed-source software.

By linking that data to the intrusion detection systems' ability to recognize an attack on a vulnerable system, Ransbotham compiled a list of 883 vulnerabilities in confirmed open- or closed-source software on which attacks could be recognized.

In his analysis, Ransbotham found that attacks on vulnerabilities in open-source software occurred sooner than attacks on closed-source software, as measured from the first report of the vulnerability by each company.

When a charitable nonprofit like Mozilla makes a shift as substantial as this one – installing closed-source software designed to treat computer users as untrusted adversaries – you'd expect there to be a data-driven research story behind it, meticulously documenting the proposition that without DRM irrelevance is inevitable.

Some would argue that closed source software makes independent companies compete more, and this would make a better end product.

When trying to attain the benefits of open source software (OSS), proprietary closed source software (PCSS) firms are struggling to adopt this radically different practice of software development.

Kerckhoff's law that "a system should be designed to be secure if everything is known about it except the key information" was trotted out as an argument that closed source software such as IOS and Windows would soon be extinct, ushering in the golden age of open source.

An interesting comparison was provided between open source software and closed source software.

Of particular interest with this is the proliferation of proprietary, closed source software.