Open source vs proprietary software: myths, risks, and what organizations need to know (nextcloud.com)

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

The code is open anyone to inspect, test, and improve. Vulnerabilities don’t stay hidden as they are found, reported, and fixed in the open.

That's also a myth, specially for a project of the size of nextcloud. Bugs can and do go unnoticed for years while in plain sight - with no way to know if it's been detected by any black hat.

Even worse: as soon as you merge a security fix in an open repository, people will instantly be trying to abuse it in any environment they can find that is currently running the unpatched version.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Proprietary software has its own version of that problem where companies are informed of a vulnerability by researchers and then just don't bother to fix it until the researchers are forced to publish it 😅

I'd guess the number of competent eyes on large foss projects used by companies is probably higher than more consumer focused stuff like Nextcloud (does Nextcloud position itself as a corporate tool? Maybe it does and I'm just not aware of it...) but I'm not the most knowledgable on this subject so I could certainly be mistaken

Edit: I'm dumb and still mostly asleep, just saw its literally a nextcloud article lol

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Or they just call it a under documented or undocumented feature (thinking specifically about the Azure feature to let you access other tenants if they are using that Tenable reported last June).

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Everything you just said applies to proprietary software but worse lol

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