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It feels like a cargo cult approach to the problem. "I'm safe because I compile from source" is an absurd statement when a million LoC is involved.

• kube-system 4y ago
  The linux kernel is much more than a million LoC. Closer to 30 million.
  • ghostpepper 4y ago
    If anything I think this underscores the parent comment - open source is not inherently more secure than closed, it just adds another potential avenue (source code audit) to ensure security. If nobody actually audits the source, and the closed-source binary has had other types of testing done on it, it's likely that the closed source binary will be more secure.
    • kube-system 4y ago
      Yes, my comment was in support of its parent. If reading a million lines is hard, reading ~30 million is harder.
  • amarshall 4y ago
    Much of that is drivers that may be disabled if not needed for current hardware, narrowing the audit scope.