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This is a terrible comparison. With OSS people are looking for security flaws. With a twitter/google algorithm people are trying to exploit the system when it w
by hooande 5y ago
This is a terrible comparison. With OSS people are looking for security flaws. With a twitter/google algorithm people are trying to exploit the system when it works as intended. If there is a secret formula for a successful tweet, people will find it and repeat that behavior ad nauseum.
The problem with google search isn't that people are exploiting 0-days that the developers aren't aware of. The problem is that the majority of the internet is becoming nearly identical pages that do the bare minimum to get ranked by search engines. Making the algorithm public will only exacerbate that
- LightHugger 5y agoIf there is a "secret formula" (exploit) then that is a flaw in the system that should be addressed, it will be discovered by the sufficiently motivated attackers, as it already is regularly. This is equivalent to security through obscurity, and it clearly is not working as you point out. You assert that more eyes on the flaws would make the issue worse rather than better, but i disagree.