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by _pmf_ 2251 days ago
> People just aren't auditing random code on github for fun

No, just the important code that everyone is running.

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You don't have to audit that. It's so popular, someone else must have done a thorough review already!
Afaik it had the opposite effect for OpenSSL. Not only was the code so bad that it would crash if ran with a secure malloc implementation. Due to being free and open source nobody felt the need to donate[1], with only one developer employed to work on it full time.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/tech-...

Well. eventually someone looked at it. And probably Heartbleed has been used a long time before it was published.
I have to confess that I have run afl on random code on github.