Not discrediting Open Source Software, but nothing is 100% safe.

  • nous@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Also, just because you can see the source code does not mean it has been audited, and just because you cannot see the source code does not mean it has not been audited. A company has a lot more money to spend on hiring people and external teams to audit their code (without needing to reverse engineer it). More so than some single developer does for their OSS project, even if most of the internet relies on it (see openssl).

    • Dr. Jenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube
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      1 year ago

      And just because a company has the money to spend on audits doesn’t mean they did, and even when they did, doesn’t mean they acted on the results. Moreover, just because code was audited doesn’t mean all of the security issues were identified.