“There’s no evidence that the ‘many eyes’ looking at open source software has made it any more secure than closed source - and in fact when we’re talking about security, the obscurity of closed source can be an advantage.”
-Patrick Heim #lfosls
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Yeeeeeah I’m with you. Unclear if the speaker has evidence - mentioned a study from the homeland security department but wasn’t specific
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It could be an apples to oranges measurement like CVEs vs Microsoft Bulletins that they actually told you about and made granular.
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But also, "OSS software is as secure as software written by Microsoft which has a dedicated world class security team" is not really a knock on OSS
End of conversation
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Maybe more eyes hasn't made os more secure (I don't believe it, but willing to entertain the thought), however I can have zero trust in a black box
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