β² 1470 βΌ Proprietary vs Open Source Backdoors (lemy.lol) submitted 1 year ago by icegladiator@lemy.lol to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world 96 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[β] TheKMAP@lemmynsfw.com 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) I'm not sure how you can provide evidence that one thing has fewer unknown unknowns than another thing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago By relative volume of the known things. It's not a guarantee, but it's highly suggestive that the more observable instances of something, the more not yet observed instances of the same thing are out there. There are factors that can knock that out of balance, like not having access to source code making things harder to find, but those confounding factors would hide more on the closed source side than the open source side. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago By relative volume of the known things. It's not a guarantee, but it's highly suggestive that the more observable instances of something, the more not yet observed instances of the same thing are out there. There are factors that can knock that out of balance, like not having access to source code making things harder to find, but those confounding factors would hide more on the closed source side than the open source side. permalink fedilink source parent
