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by bsd44 1790 days ago
So Apple iOS, Microsoft Windows, Amazon FireOS, Cisco IOS, Netapp ONTAP... they are all "not secure" because they are not OSS?
2 comments

Potentially not secure and definitely not private, for most of them.
Potentially not secure is not the same as definitely not secure. OSS is also potentially not secure. I don't understand these comments. They seem like they were written by semi-literate adolescents.
I agree that being open source is not a guarantee of security or privacy. But there's a social contract which comes with it and the transparency that together make the projects more likely to at least be motivated towards those goals.

> They seem like they were written by semi-literate adolescents.

That's unnecessary.

Yes.