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Couldn't you then say that OSS software has more people looking for flaws to patch, so it would be more secure - not less? I suppose it does vary by project th
by kzisme 10y ago
Couldn't you then say that OSS software has more people looking for flaws to patch, so it would be more secure - not less?
I suppose it does vary by project though.
- EJTH 10y agoIts a double edged sword of course, but for the financial sector the money saved on open source would be peanuts in the grand scheme of things. A proprietary CMS may very well be holed like a swiss cheese, but it will not be as obvious / easy to find the holes when you can't look at the source code, you are basically left with fuzzers and manual/bruteforcing injection as your only viably point of entry.