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RE: Are open-source projects more or less secure than proprietary ones?

in #asksteemit7 years ago

Proprietary (closed-source) projects, are generally less secure, unless a security team is hired to check for security-related bugs.

Open-source project may have more bugs in the beginning, but they usualy get ironed out sooner than in proprietary ones, because anyone can see the code and provide fixes. (not happening at 100% of open source software out there, but in projects like Wordpress for example, this is the case)

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Id have to agree with this. I often hear "proprietary is better because they can hire better programmers." It makes me wanna vomit lol
I find WordPress to be a bit of an ironic example. Wordpress core, definitely a great example. Wordpress plugins, this could be a whole debate by itself lol.
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Depending on your point of view, you are correct.

The core, which I meant in my comment is a very good example as you said. The same I would say for the Linux Kernel, but when you start loading plugins/modules, it's a very different story!

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