this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2023
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OSS has its own attack vectors which closed doesn’t, i.e. malicious code snuck into upstream libraries and going unnoticed for weeks, or outright buying popular oss code from devs to abuse.
Neither is more secure.
People can figure out what happens on OSS while for closed source, it will be after 5 years still unnoticed