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?

  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    It also provides some assurance that the service/project/company is doing what they say they are, instead of “trust us”.

    Meta has deployed code so criminal that everyone who knew about it should be serving hard jail time (if we didn’t live in corporate dictatorships). If their code were public they couldn’t pull shit like this anywhere near as easily.