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?
By your logic no one can break locks because they can’t see it. There are going to be people trying to break into everything even tho they don’t have the source code.
9/10 people looking into your code are the ones using it for themselves, so fixing a bug for everyone is beneficial to them too.
Also, there are entire companies working and sponsoring these projects and paying people to find bugs because if someone finds out that curl has a problem, they are gonna have that too, so the only difference between something like vlc and adobe is that you don’t have to suck their dick really.
There’s also curl and others which are offering bug bounties, since they are way more cost efficient than paying someone full time.