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Adis Durakovic • Edited

fix it in a moment

that's simply not true. If a bad hacker finds a vulnerability they will try to abuse it, instead of fixing it.
if, on the other hand, a security specialist finds it, they'll propose a fix, which, may take days, weeks, or even months to be implemented and released.

you can't just publish opinion based articles without taking both sides into account. how are newcomers supposed to learn something, if facts are missing?

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Mark Vassilevskiy
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Adis Durakovic

So what? Just because you took one article where they quoted one person's opinion, doesn't make it the only true fact.

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Mark Vassilevskiy

Alright, man, I got you. If you don't understand that community finds the problems and the admins fixes it very fast, so you can use current linus distributions without any fears, and you can't google a little bit to figure out this part, so don't read my article

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Adis Durakovic

so don't read my article

Your article popped up on my google feed, and it's not like I was actively searching for it somewhere.

So yeah, publishing on dev.to is a good place to be heard, but it's also a place where you have to be prepared for critics, positive and negative. I keep reading other peoples comments on your article(s), and your only replies are excuses.

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out0

A bad hacker will try to exploit it, but statistically speaking, you have more devs than bad hackers looking at your code. So, the chances are your code is more prone to be corrected instead of being hacked.

It doesn't mean that it won't happen. It will. But you have the statistics on your side

Just stop and think: if that, that you are saying, was the truth, why would companies use linux as their OS in their servers?

If that was the truth, nobody in the industry would use any open source software.

What we do observe is just the opposite: even huge companies not only use open source, but they publish their products as open source.

So yeah, the open source puts statistics in your favor. That's why it's not a contradiction

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Toomas Jaska

Just stop and think: if that, that you are saying, was the truth, why would companies use linux as their OS in their servers.

Because server stuff runs great on linux and arguably it has good privilege control (relative to alternatives). I think this is the customization argument though, not necessarily security argument. Stripping the OS down to run only your business logic and secure it to the max. But more hackers will target desktop users, not server stacks that have been configured by professionals to be secure. This is also why windows has been larger target for viruses - more desktop users with less technical know-how.

If that was the truth, nobody in the industry would use any open source software.

It's not that you can't make open source software secure, it's that open source isn't a magic wand for making it more secure. Someone has to actually make PR's, someone has to actually review them etc. Would you consider ElectronJs to be secure? I love it to death, but it has struggled quite a lot with security issues.