Submitted by ActivePersona t3_11b6wx9 in technology
drawkbox t1_j9xu5tw wrote
Reply to comment by kcabnazil in Signal CEO: We “1,000% won’t participate” in UK law to weaken encryption by ActivePersona
Agreed, security through obscurity is always a bad idea. Zero trust is the only way and less third parties helps you minimize the attack vectors.
My comment here addresses some of these points
While OSS is has code to review openly, that is a good company level trust, but that also is a potential weak area where people will overly trust and let in a bad dependency that not even the company knows got compromised. It can also let you target dependencies that the code uses without even needing to steal the code. You can trust that the company that open sources will make sure their code looks good and has less holes possibly, but not always.
It has happened in OSS for decades now to the largest toolkits with the most eyes and broadest use, because that is the best way to get into systems now, via the devs who are the weak link sadly. As a dev I am blown away at the lack of awareness of devs and these issues.
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