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The eye of tech-artist Benjamin Males' custom-made surveillance camera is engineered for a black and white world.

In areas such as CRM software and portals, open source gained a foothold because users were willing to compromise -- less could be more, because the price was right. In security, open source rushed in because commercial vendors fell down on the job. As security problems in the enterprise outstripped the capabilities of commercial solutions, a number of talented security researchers stepped into the breach via the open source model.

An IBM report that tested the suitability of Linux software to secure an network its entirety has come to light months after it was originally published.