There are some people won’t touch anything to do with open source projects as they feel it might have issues with security. What does open source actually do for security or change how it works?

  • BaguetteSamurai@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    In fairness, this is only the case when people are actually inspecting the code. That safe could be a cake that looks like a safe, but if nobody tastes it there is no real benefit (in terms of security at least)

    • andruid@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      It’s a harder con to build a real looking fake safe, hoping no one will actually test it out, then just lying about what’s behind a curtain no one is allowed to look behind.