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by kzisme 3520 days ago
Couldn't you then say that OSS software has more people looking for flaws to patch, so it would be more secure - not less?

I suppose it does vary by project though.

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Its a double edged sword of course, but for the financial sector the money saved on open source would be peanuts in the grand scheme of things.

A proprietary CMS may very well be holed like a swiss cheese, but it will not be as obvious / easy to find the holes when you can't look at the source code, you are basically left with fuzzers and manual/bruteforcing injection as your only viably point of entry.