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by amadeoeoeo 362 days ago
Thanks for the advice. One fear I have is about security. Is the code is exposed, it will be way easier to exploit potential security flaws... I will not be able to just do nothing if this is the case .. Ill end up wanting it.
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> It will be way easier to exploit potential security flaws.

It will be also easier for other people to find them and report or fix them.

In general it's a bad plan to rely on code secrecy for security. It's security through obscurity which never works out. All the cryptography schemes and algorithms are public. Most of the public internet runs on open source code. Transparency is a strength, not a weakness.

What's to exploit? The company won't exist anymore...
People's servers hosting it. I will not be officially responsible but anyway not nice. I may be just paranoid
This is the risk we accept when we use something like this. I think it's fine to put it up. If there are security issues, the community of people that use it can respond accordingly.