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Re:New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-let... by astrodust on Sunday January 29, 2017 @05:48PM (#13517259)
The biggest problem is they're not open source. What went into making that organism? Is there a standard for documenting this and reasonable public disclosure when relevant?

Foods have ingredient lists for a reason.

Re:New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-let... by AnkhMorporkian on Sunday January 29, 2017 @06:01PM (#13517321)
I'd argue that any organism is inherently open source, just not necessarily free and open source.
Re:New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-let... by an-honest-moose on Sunday January 29, 2017 @06:29PM (#13517485)
By that logic you could argue that software is inherently open source.
Re:New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-let... by zeta0134 on Sunday January 29, 2017 @09:33PM (#13518246)
As the reverse engineering communities will be glad to tell you, software basically is open source. It must eventually be decoded into instructions to run on a processor, and while it's not impossible to fully sign / encrypt the binary blobs before they are run, it is practically not worried about for most applications. Without using specialized hardware, you can at best obfuscate your code, but you cannot make it impossible to eventually disassemble and understand.

Assume your code will be disassembled at some point by a bad actor. Don't assume that any code distributed to a client is safe or trustworthy, and expect that any data, methods, or secrets contained in that code are now public knowledge. To secure your environment systems under any other assumption is a dangerous falsehood.

Re:New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-let... by astrodust on Sunday January 29, 2017 @06:13PM (#13517388)
If it's been baked the source is wrecked, so not really.
Re:New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-let... by AnkhMorporkian on Sunday January 29, 2017 @06:23PM (#13517453)
Ending a bash script in rm $1 doesn't magically make it not open source, just inherently self-destructive.