Symantec No Longer Allows Governments to Review Source Code

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Reuters reports that security software company Symantec will no longer allow any governments to checkout the source code (warning autostart video) for its software stemming from the fear of the products being compromised. Its CEO, Greg Clark says "code reviews pose [an] unacceptable risk" and not worth the potential lost in business due to losing their customer's confidence.

Symantec's decision has been praised by some western cyber security experts, who said the company bucked a growing trend in recent years that has seen other companies accede to demands to share source code.
 
how long until it gets pulled from major stores, before they realize almost every govt computer runs with it.
 
All Symantec jokes aside, they are right, the lid was blown with govt source controls due to Kaspersky's tools being used as a backdoor.

Any submission of anything to a governmental body is obviously going to be used for maximal value (see exploitation).

(Unless of course it's the DMV <rimshot>)
 
Opportunity here for someone/group to setup a separate organization to review the source code, like an anti-virus oversight company or something, and then sell their secrets to the government...
 
Trying to compete with Kaspersky using reverse psychology.
Peter Norton, let us know how that works.
 
Hi, I'm Pied and I use Norton Anti-Virus (and will likely continue in the future.) *takes a seat*
 
Symantec is (justifiably) afraid people are going to see their sloppy, bug filled code.
 
How do we know Microsoft hasn't created a backdoor for the NSA and some jackass employee keeps the tools on his personal PC at home where it gets stolen by Russian/Chinese hackers sending out waifu love emails?
 
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