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I think the actual argument is bad anyway. Open-sourcing their product is a bad idea because malicious people will read the code and exploit its flaws? This i
by lg 17y ago
I think the actual argument is bad anyway. Open-sourcing their product is a bad idea because malicious people will read the code and exploit its flaws? This is security by obscurity and it will not promote the open internet. I don't think it's wrong but it's not altruistic either.
- andreyf 17y agoYes, open sourcing how their search algorithm works would destroy the relevance of their search rankings. There's a multi-billion SEO market reverse engineering those algorithms.
- gaius 17y agoRight, but there isn't a multi-billion-dollar market in reverse engineering AES, because it's published. And we all use it and it's fine - publication hasn't weakened it at all.
- nvoorhies 17y agoAES does something completely different though. AES wants to make an insignificant change to the input result in a disproportionate change in the output. Any kind of scoring system where scoring ended up being essentially random like this would be useless. And any scoring system that's useful and open will tell you just how to increase your score.