• justastranger
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    1 year ago

    It’s open source. If there were backdoors people would’ve noticed.

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      1 year ago

      Open source code isn’t immune to exploits. It’s impossible to exhaustively test every interaction in massive code bases for unintended behavior.

      The upside of open source is that a well intentioned person might find a vulnerability and get it fixed. Up until then it might be someone’s 0 day.

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        1 year ago

        You’re talking about exploits. They were talking about backdoors. The are not the same thing.

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          Open source code isn’t immune to backdoors. It’s impossible to exhaustively test every interaction in massive code bases for unintended behavior.

          The upside of open source is that a well intentioned person might find a backdoor and get it fixed. Up until then it might be someone’s backdoor.

          Better?