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WildCard65
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Old 07-20-2016 , 21:00   Re: [CS:GO] Democloud - Demo backup and sharing
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Closed source binaries aren't any more secure then open source binaries are.

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Originally Posted by Steam chat with git user bartico6
WildCard65 the Joker Card: In your opinion
WildCard65 the Joker Card: do you think closed source binaries are more secure then open source
WildCard65 the Joker Card: in my opinion, that's not true
quake: no
quake: with enough effort they can be decompiled and audited too
quake: and then, the amount of people knowing about the vulnerability is a lot smaller
quake: yes, less people will abuse it, but the abuse will go on for much longer
quake: with opensource, someone will find it and use it, sure, they'll even make it public, (or not, someone will find it too at some point), and it will be eventually fixed
quake: people are willing to contribute to something they use, and they want to be secure
WildCard65 the Joker Card: but with closed source, it's a lot harder to trace where it's happening in the code
quake: thinking closed source is safer than open source is just absurd
quake: and we're skipping backdoors/malicious code
quake: because that's a WHOLE different story
quake: of trust and shit
WildCard65 the Joker Card: tell me about it...
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