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minus-squareCosmicTurtle0 [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up74arrow-down5·1年前Our entire Internet, the backbone of all encryption, all runs on open source software. It is more secure because people can see and audit the code. Let me flip what you wrote: Our military equipment already is vulnerable. We just don’t know how badly because it’s not open source. Prove it’s secure by releasing the code.
minus-squareOsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1年前 Our military equipment already is vulnerable. We just don’t know how badly because it’s not open source. I’m gonna be honest, I’m sure China has many copies of the source code already
Our entire Internet, the backbone of all encryption, all runs on open source software.
It is more secure because people can see and audit the code.
Let me flip what you wrote:
Our military equipment already is vulnerable. We just don’t know how badly because it’s not open source.
Prove it’s secure by releasing the code.
I’m gonna be honest, I’m sure China has many copies of the source code already