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The right thing for the wrong reasons: FLOSS doesn't imply security (seirdy.one)

submitted 2 years ago by Seirdy@lemmy.ml to c/security@lemmy.ml

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I find people who agree with me for the wrong reasons to be more problematic than people who simply disagree with me. After writing a lot about why free software is important, I needed to clarify that there are good and bad reasons for supporting it.

You can audit the security of proprietary software quite thoroughly; source code isn't a necessary or sufficient precondition for a particular software implementation to be considered secure.

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[–] iocseb@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Great article! Also, thanks a lot for adding the additional arguments from this thread - Makes it much better.

[–] Seirdy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not just this thread, but the rest of Fedi, IRC, my own email, and Matrix too. My posts get atl 20% longer after I share them.