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by kube-system 1256 days ago
The linux kernel is much more than a million LoC. Closer to 30 million.
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ghostpepper 1256 days ago
If anything I think this underscores the parent comment - open source is not inherently more secure than closed, it just adds another potential avenue (source code audit) to ensure security.

If nobody actually audits the source, and the closed-source binary has had other types of testing done on it, it's likely that the closed source binary will be more secure.

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kube-system 1256 days ago
Yes, my comment was in support of its parent. If reading a million lines is hard, reading ~30 million is harder.
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amarshall 1256 days ago
Much of that is drivers that may be disabled if not needed for current hardware, narrowing the audit scope.
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