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> Do the security benefits of going Open Source outweigh the security costs? Only if there are enough eyeballs. In practice that's only true for bigger project
by munchbunny 6y ago
> Do the security benefits of going Open Source outweigh the security costs?
Only if there are enough eyeballs. In practice that's only true for bigger projects.
- gloriousternary 6y agoOn the other hand, would hackers target something that small? It seems to me like the benefits and drawbacks of open source for security would kick in around the same scale.
- munchbunny 6y agoYes and no. Popularity or user base and number of engineers looking at the code are probably correlated, but there are definitely exceptions, like: * small NPM packages depended on by popular ones * video game mods and tools * open source end user utilities