Edward Snowden, the former NSA computer security consultant, has supported free software movement activist Richard Stallman’s long-standing warnings about proprietary software. His endorsement came ...
Dr. Joseph Castle is the advisor for strategic relationships and open-source technologies at SAS after serving more than 20 years in the U.S. federal government. He spent time at the White House ...
Institutions of higher learning are internet-based and include both on-site and online courses. Even some campus based schools are educating housed students remotely due to continued health issues. In ...
Whenever chaos engulfs a proprietary technology relied on by millions, the default knee-jerk reaction from many seems to be: “Hey, let’s see what the open source world has to offer.” Case in point: ...
John Ellis is the President and Head of Product for Codethink, a world-class provider of critical, high-performance software projects. Open-source software is publicly available software developed and ...
Open source software (OSS) is mainstream today, but just because it's widely used doesn't mean it's widely understood. And this is especially true when it comes to OSS and security. That lack of ...
After a series of entries about security threats from employees, I’d like to turn to something completely different: security issues relating to open source software. For those of you unfamiliar with ...