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"this is really not the way to communicate the message that they ... want their software to be scrutinized" To be fair, isn't the case for most proprietary sof
by dotBen 13y ago
"this is really not the way to communicate the message that they ... want their software to be scrutinized"
To be fair, isn't the case for most proprietary software - even for the most security-concerned closed-source companies?
No one at WhatsApp has ever warrented that their software is open source, that they want to produce open source or that they share open source values.
- Jtsummers 13y agoAs I understand it they've contributed a lot back to the erlang platform itself. It's their particular system that they want to keep proprietary.
- FiloSottile 13y ago"isn't the case for most proprietary software - even for the most security-concerned closed-source companies" Frequently, and it is an attitude I really dislike. A serious dedicated attacker can replicate the reversing work quite fast, but this kind of things make it really hard to dedicate a couple of hors to assessing the quality of a protocol. Moreover, they demonstrated not to be security-concerned, so this comes to me as covering tracks, even if it isn't.