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
Vulnerabilities can be discovered much faster since the code is out in the open.
Take iOS, for example… Apple does a tremendous job advertising its security (and keeping the source code secret), and yet hackers and companies like NSO quickly find ways to break it (ask yourself how that happens).
In the latter case, most exploits are never made public.
Latest Answers