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Title: Open Source Is Everywhere and So Are Vulnerabilities, Says Black Duck Report
Post by: sam on May 20, 2018, 22:45

https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Open-Source-Is-Everywhere-and-So-Are-Vulnerabilities-Says-Black-Duck-Report-85338.html

Scary but very true. Its ok though, the community is good at fixing!

Title: Re: Open Source Is Everywhere and So Are Vulnerabilities, Says Black Duck Report
Post by: Simon on May 20, 2018, 23:48

I like Open Source.  For some reason, I seem to feel less 'owned' by it.

Title: Re: Open Source Is Everywhere and So Are Vulnerabilities, Says Black Duck Report
Post by: sam on May 21, 2018, 06:22

Quote from: Simon on May 20, 2018, 23:48

I like Open Source.  For some reason, I seem to feel less 'owned' by it.

Indeed.... though open source tends to make any cash via data handling I guess. But open source is different to open access, i.e. how Google acts...  :devil:

Title: Re: Open Source Is Everywhere and So Are Vulnerabilities, Says Black Duck Report
Post by: GillE on May 21, 2018, 11:52

All software is vulnerable to some extent.  I wish more could be done to bring hackers to account and penalise them heavily - after all, it's not the program developers and users who are at fault.

Title: Re: Open Source Is Everywhere and So Are Vulnerabilities, Says Black Duck Report
Post by: Simon on May 21, 2018, 12:28

I guess it's finding them...   :-\