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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 2749 days ago
It isn't as though being open source solves that problem, look at things like Heartbleed.
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They may not solve the problem, but they do you allow you to solve the problem.
Kind of. One of the problems with being attacked from the lower layers is that it can be outright impossible to defend against in some cases. In other cases the defense involves significant tradeoffs, usually in performance.
Not realistically unless I have a lot of experience with driver programming. After all, I can technically hand-edit the machine code of a binary blob too.
> After all, I can technically hand-edit the machine code of a binary blob too.

Signed binaries make that a lot harder.

And how does source code help that? I can resign a modified binary just like I can a freshly compiled one.