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This probably should have been written 20 or 30 years ago. I mean... the reaction to the idea that things are secure because they're open sourced. I'm just di
by OhMeadhbh 3y ago
This probably should have been written 20 or 30 years ago. I mean... the reaction to the idea that things are secure because they're open sourced. I'm just disappointed it took 25 years for an organization to respond to ESR with "hey. not all bugs are shallow."
How could we have known that some bugs weren't shallow? Oh... I dunno... maybe looking at history. There were PLENTY of examples of security bugs in code from before the FSF declared a new era of open source utopia. How could we have known ESR and RMS were wrong? (At least in a small, yet important, corner of the memespace.)