18F and OSS in the U.S. Federal Government (Changelog Interviews #230)
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The Impact of Open Source on Security
The Department of Defense put out a memo in 2009, saying that hiding the source code is not a legitimately security protection. Having people be able to see into that and actually peek into it seems like it might impact security too. It has a huge benefit for us, security wise and otherwise. I think coming back to GitHub too, with not sure if I got a direct answer, that was a beacon of light or not.
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