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I was responding specifically to: >closed software may be more secure by nature of There is simply no security benefit offered by requiring access and knowled
by DarkmSparks 4y ago
I was responding specifically to:
>closed software may be more secure by nature of
There is simply no security benefit offered by requiring access and knowledge of decompilers and reverse engineering to see the source code and recompile the software, and numerous security disadvantages.
- mulmen 4y agoYou are replying to a small part of one sentence? In context I am clearly not saying what you suggest. The very next words are “assigning eyes to the critical components”. The benefit of closed software in this context is that someone is paid to look. That’s not unique to closed software but having someone look isn’t guaranteed with open software either.
- DarkmSparks 4y agoThat would only be a benefit if it was impossible for open source software to have people paid to look....