Not discrediting Open Source Software, but nothing is 100% safe.
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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You can get a good look at a T-bone by sticking your head up a cow's ass but I'd rather take the butcher's word for it.
There are people that do audit open source shit quite often. That is openly documented. I'll take their fully documented word for it. Proprietary shit does not have that benefit.
And even when problems are found, like the heartbleed bug in OpenSSL, they're way more likely to just be fixed and update rather than, oh I dunno, ignored and compromise everybody's security because fixing it would cost more and nobody knows about it anyway. Bodo Moller and Adam Langley fixed the heartbleed bug for free.
Thanks Callahan!