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?
In: Engineering
Just because you have the instructions on how to build the safe, doesn’t mean you know the combo to a safe.
Open source is even better because by making those instructions public, people who notice a way to break the safe will bring the issue up so your next version of the safe is even more secure.
Open source software is the same idea.
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