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It's Open Source! (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not discrediting Open Source Software, but nothing is 100% safe.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it would have been way worse, because it would have been less discoverable in a closed source software by someone somewhere

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Devil's Advocate...

Codenomicon, the company who actually named the flaw, didn't find the bug via the source code. They were building a security product and when testing that product against their own servers exposed the flaw. Open Source was not a factor in this discovery.

Google HAD discovered the flaw via the source code, exactly two days earlier.

In this case, the bug was 0.267379679% more discoverable due to being open source versus being closed.