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Open Source Is Everywhere and So Are Vulnerabilities, Says Black Duck Report
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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!
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Re: Open Source Is Everywhere and So Are Vulnerabilities, Says Black Duck Report
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I like Open Source. For some reason, I seem to feel less 'owned' by it.
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Re: Open Source Is Everywhere and So Are Vulnerabilities, Says Black Duck Report
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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...
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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.
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I guess it's finding them...
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