I’m all for open source software so it can be understood, developed, and used by more people than if it was proprietary. However, I don’t get how it can be secure if malicious actors have access to the source code and the entire software package to practice their attacks against?
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Simply put, security is not achieved through obscurity. For example, encryption algorithms are well known – the secrecy of communication must not rely on the obscurity of the encrypting algorithm.
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