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Do you want your money back?
by danielweber 12y ago
Do you want your money back?
- Karellen 12y agoI want people who aren't up to providing secure security software to say so and bow out, rather than giving their users a false sense of security, and giving other developers a reason for not wanting to create "unnecessary" forks and split mindshare/effort in the hopes that OpenSSL will be "good enough". There's still not as much effort going into the alternatives as there could be, because people are still hoping that OpenSSL will get its act together, and that downstream devs won't have to start writing autotool magic and #ifdefs to deal with OpenSSL and LibReSSL and GnuTLS's OpenSSL wrapper and whatever other fork(s) their users might be using instead. I think if OpenSSL got out of the way, we'd converge on a better replacement more quickly than we are doing now, and we'd all be more secure as a result.
- PhantomGremlin 12y agoClassic Dunning-Kruger effect. The OpenSSL people don't realize how incompetent they are.
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- Gigablah 12y agoOne day there'll be a study on the types of people that cite the Dunning-Kruger effect.