Re:Ask HN: Why do institutions choose buggy enterprise cms o...
by EJTH on Friday November 04, 2016 @10:09AM
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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.
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.