I support free and open source software (FOSS) like VLC, Qbittorrent, Libre Office, Gimp…

But why do people say that it’s as secure or more secure than closed source software? From what I understand, closed source software don’t disclose their code.

If you want to see the source code of Photoshop, you actually need to work for Adobe. Otherwise, you need to be some kind of freaking retro-engineering expert.

But open source has their code available to the entire world on Github or Gitlab.

Isn’t that actually also helping hackers?

  • towerful@programming.dev
    9·
    20 hours ago

    It’s also easier to share vulnerability fixes between different projects.

    “Y” was using a similar memory management as “T”, T was hacked due to whatever, people that use Y and T report to Y that a similar vulnerability might be exploitable

    Edit:
    In closed source, this might happen if both projects are under the same company.
    But users will never have the ability to tell Y that T was hacked in a way that might affect Y