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    [–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 100 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    True. And the "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" is a neat sounding thing from the past when the amount of code lines was not as much as now. Sometimes it is scary to see how long a vulnerability in the Linux kernel had been there for years, "waiting" to be exploited.

    [–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 73 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Still far better than a proprietary kernel made by a tech corp, carried hardly changed from release to release, even fewer people maintain, and if they do they might well be adding a backdoor themselves for their government agency friends.

    [–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 19 points 7 months ago

    true, opensource can be flawed, but it's certain less flawed than a closed source alternatives

    [–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago