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Is open source software more secure or less secure ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Arequire" data-source="post: 934129" data-attributes="member: 59283"><p>It's not <em>inherently</em> more secure, but has the potential to be. The fact that anyone can review the code increases the chance of finding bugs and vulnerabilities; the greater number of people reviewing, the higher the chance of finding them.</p><p>The issue then is whether people are actually reviewing the code in the first place, and even in they are, whether those people have the expertise to do so.</p><p>Also a developer may not respond to any/certain issues found, or may fall to implement appropriate fixes for them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arequire, post: 934129, member: 59283"] It's not [I]inherently[/I] more secure, but has the potential to be. The fact that anyone can review the code increases the chance of finding bugs and vulnerabilities; the greater number of people reviewing, the higher the chance of finding them. The issue then is whether people are actually reviewing the code in the first place, and even in they are, whether those people have the expertise to do so. Also a developer may not respond to any/certain issues found, or may fall to implement appropriate fixes for them. [/QUOTE]
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