I support free and open source software (FOSS) like VLC, Qbittorrent, LibreOffice, 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 websites like Github or Gitlab.

Isn’t that actually also helping hackers?

  • BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org
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    10 days ago

    Otherwise, you need to be some kind of freaking retro-engineering expert.

    And as it turns out, there is a ton of financial motivation for less than ethical people to develop those skills and use them to hack proprietary software. And there is some, but less, financial motivation for ethical people to do the same.