Like a privacy based fully open source browser. Wouldnt it be more hackable because every one know the script and is a glopal privacy based gpay alternative possible ?
Like a privacy based fully open source browser. Wouldnt it be more hackable because every one know the script and is a glopal privacy based gpay alternative possible ?
As long as there us incentive to do so, malicious actors will exploit the source code whether it is open or closed…
Making something open source does make it easier for malicious actors, but it also allows honest actors to find and fix exploits before they can be used - something they won’t/can’t do for closed source, meaning you have to rely on in-house devs to review/find/fix everything.
I work in a open source software and I can tell you for sure that this only works in theory, at least for projects that aren’t giant like chromium. If I push some code to a new branch on github there will be people looking at the changes before I even had time to open a PR, but very obvious security flaws can stay in the code for several years before anyone reports it. The amount of people looking for things to exploit is just much larger than the white hats. Sure they could still find the same flaws without access to the source, but we’re making if easier for them.