Perhaps I need a better understanding of what open source means, but how can a program that is openly publishing its code not be super vulnerable to cyber security threats. That’s like a bank publishing exactly how all it’s security works right? Obviously I’m missing something here, so ELI5!
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If a bank only keeps your money safe by being secret how security works then the bank is unsafe the second someone figures it out. It’s a terrible security model. Just using obscurity to hope people don’t know something, and open source knows it can never use it so it doesn’t.
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