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Is open source software more secure or less secure ?
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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 85179" data-source="post: 934124"><p>That's wishful thinking.</p><p></p><p>OpenSource doesn't make anything more or less secure by definition. It only improve the transparentation and community can contribute.</p><p></p><p>But mostly, OpenSource is less secure because community doesn't help, main developer stop the project or nobody check the code for years.</p><p>It's also not true that closed source is less secure because of closed source. Reverse engineering is what is used e.g. and most security researcher check closed, big projects instead of random OpenSource projects</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 85179, post: 934124"] That's wishful thinking. OpenSource doesn't make anything more or less secure by definition. It only improve the transparentation and community can contribute. But mostly, OpenSource is less secure because community doesn't help, main developer stop the project or nobody check the code for years. It's also not true that closed source is less secure because of closed source. Reverse engineering is what is used e.g. and most security researcher check closed, big projects instead of random OpenSource projects [/QUOTE]
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