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Finding the problems with FOSS (or really any body of closed or open source or object code) usually requires at least challenging assumptions (not "oh yeah I so
by avifreedman 13y ago
Finding the problems with FOSS (or really any body of closed or open source or object code) usually requires at least challenging assumptions (not "oh yeah I sort of see what's going on" but digging in) or real creativity.
The thing that seems to drive that is profit or geek-respect motive, so the folks doing said verification would need to be probably not your average bear doing a job or even person pretty interested but multitasking.
I think it'd be hard to find and manage such a work and/or volunteer force at scale well enough to really think that a creative and hard-core security review had been accomplished.