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In case you missed it: Bank info-stealing malware found in 90+ Android apps with 5.5M installs (mashable.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, of course. However, when it's open source, at least somebody is capable of checking those things, even if it is not you. Somebody in the community is capable of doing so.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yes, that is true, but let's not pretend that just because some one is theoretically able to, that all source code is constantly monitored by 3rd parties.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Oh, absolutely, that's true. Definitely smaller projects have less audited code, and even bigger projects can have bugs. Heart bleed ring a bell, LOL. However, when open source software has a bug and it is discovered, it is fixed by somebody in record time, whereas in closed source software, you don't know that there is a bug that can be exploited and it definitely won't be fixed until it's reverse engineered or something or exploited.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Being open-source is not sufficient, but necessary.