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by notaplumber 2251 days ago
I have to believe given the sheer size of these communities, that the source code being available only helped to confirm what was already known. The panic seen here hearkens back to the days when companies made similar ridiculous security claims about open source software compared to proprietary software.
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That seems like quite a stretch. The difference between having the source code and not having it is night and day as far as exploring potential vulnerabilities...which is one of the strengths of open source as you point out, but this code was not intended to be || written as open source hence the panic. Feel like you missed the mark on this one.