Just posted a comment in response to Alarming Open-Source Security Holes at MIT’s Technology Review:

Your headline is misleading – I hope it’s an innocent mistake, as opposed to an intentional attempt to spread FUD about Open Source software. The crucial nuance that’s missing, both from the headline and the article, is that bugs such as this are just as likely to occur in closed-source software as in open-source — but with open-source software, they’re far more likely to be discovered, sooner, precisely because the code is available for anyone to peruse!

I expect more from Technology Review. Please consider adding a note or correction to this effect.

I’m not actually surprised or anything; TR has always had a corporate feel to it – it’s generally about MITers or ex-MITers making money, as opposed to pure excitement about technology.

Edit: Struck out the last paragraph; after Jason Pontin’s comment below, I realized that my impressions of TR are almost certainly out of date. BTW, he also responded to my comment; check out the discussion there.