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CameronDev@programming.dev
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To be fair, we only know of this one. There may well be other open source backdoors floating around with no detection. Was heartbleed really an accident?

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lemmyreader@lemmy.mlOP
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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.

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RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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.

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Vilian@lemmy.ca
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true, opensource can be flawed, but it’s certain less flawed than a closed source alternatives

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lemmyreader@lemmy.mlOP
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Exactly.

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xenoclast@lemmy.world
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Yeah he didn’t find the right unmaintained project. There are many many many cs undergrads starting projects that will become unmaintained pretty soon.

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