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[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 99 points 5 months ago

True. And the "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" is a neat sounding thing from the past when the amount of code lines was not as much as now. Sometimes it is scary to see how long a vulnerability in the Linux kernel had been there for years, "waiting" to be exploited.

[-] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 72 points 5 months ago

Still far better than a proprietary kernel made by a tech corp, carried hardly changed from release to release, even fewer people maintain, and if they do they might well be adding a backdoor themselves for their government agency friends.

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 18 points 5 months ago

true, opensource can be flawed, but it's certain less flawed than a closed source alternatives

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago
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