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Is open source software more secure or less secure ?
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<blockquote data-quote="rain2reign" data-source="post: 935553" data-attributes="member: 88069"><p>I had a similar discussion once with a group of software security specialists and bounty hunters. They told me in unison at least "open-source is better for security, but it carries <strong>two undeniable risks</strong> with it.", being:</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">You will never have the secure knowledge that it's the exact same copy of source code running on the software, service or servers.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The leaks, bugs, exploit's and other open doors can and will be used against you, until it's fixed. Which the patch time can vary from a few hours to days if not weeks.</li> </ol><p>I see Open-source as a huge bonus and preference myself, provided you can either read or know some folks that can read the code. But I don't <s>naively</s> necessarily believe that the exact same code is running on the service applicable. Companies and services often don't put their branding code and telemetry along with the source code for example. Even if there is a tick-box or cmd-line setting to turn it off in the GUI.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rain2reign, post: 935553, member: 88069"] I had a similar discussion once with a group of software security specialists and bounty hunters. They told me in unison at least "open-source is better for security, but it carries [B]two undeniable risks[/B] with it.", being: [LIST=1] [*]You will never have the secure knowledge that it's the exact same copy of source code running on the software, service or servers. [*]The leaks, bugs, exploit's and other open doors can and will be used against you, until it's fixed. Which the patch time can vary from a few hours to days if not weeks. [/LIST] I see Open-source as a huge bonus and preference myself, provided you can either read or know some folks that can read the code. But I don't [S]naively[/S] necessarily believe that the exact same code is running on the service applicable. Companies and services often don't put their branding code and telemetry along with the source code for example. Even if there is a tick-box or cmd-line setting to turn it off in the GUI. [/QUOTE]
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