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A comment on iMac Pro's T2 chip. Parent comment

Re:iMac Pro's T2 chip by ClassyJacket on Thursday January 04, 2018 @03:21PM (#16073709)
"Those millions of potential eyeballs didn't find the Heartbleed bug."

Sorry, how would we be talking about it if they didn't find it?

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Re:iMac Pro's T2 chip by scarface74 on Thursday January 04, 2018 @03:27PM (#16073760)
After two years when it was in open source code?

How is that any better of a track record than vulnerabilities found in closed source code?

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Re:iMac Pro's T2 chip by mgkimsal on Thursday January 04, 2018 @11:57PM (#16076654)
We don't really know when it was first found, iirc, only when it was publicized.
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Re:iMac Pro's T2 chip by scarface74 on Friday January 05, 2018 @01:01AM (#16076864)
That's not helping the case for open source software...
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Re:iMac Pro's T2 chip by jeffhuys on Friday January 05, 2018 @06:50AM (#16078054)
Exactly.. Open source is awesome, don't get me wrong, but it's not safer by definition. Sure, people can look for problems and openly discuss it and fix it, but that's assuming they are whitehats. Blackhats are also looking, all day every day, for exploits in open-source code. And they can find them before whitehats do.
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