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Re:Ask HN: Why do institutions choose buggy enterprise cms o... by kzisme on Thursday November 03, 2016 @03:25PM (#12867134)
Couldn't you then say that OSS software has more people looking for flaws to patch, so it would be more secure - not less?

I suppose it does vary by project though.

Re:Ask HN: Why do institutions choose buggy enterprise cms o... by EJTH on Friday November 04, 2016 @10:09AM (#12872650)
Its a double edged sword of course, but for the financial sector the money saved on open source would be peanuts in the grand scheme of things.

A proprietary CMS may very well be holed like a swiss cheese, but it will not be as obvious / easy to find the holes when you can't look at the source code, you are basically left with fuzzers and manual/bruteforcing injection as your only viably point of entry.