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Re:If you don't own your OS, you don't own your BTC by jcranmer on Monday January 06, 2020 @10:12AM (#21969680)
You're discounting the risk that, because it's open source, everyone assumes that someone else has done the security analysis. That is precisely what happened with OpenSSL--everyone assumed, since it's a big open source package, that somebody was keeping on top of this sort of issue, but nobody was.

That there have been two major OpenSSL security fumbles (first was the Debian OpenSSL fiasco, second Heartbleed) sort of suggests that the value of "many eyes" for ensuring security is vastly overrated.

Re:If you don't own your OS, you don't own your BTC by pbhjpbhj on Monday January 06, 2020 @10:25AM (#21969772)
How's that different to MS Windows, we assume the code is good, but some of the errors/oversights that crop up beggar belief.
Re:If you don't own your OS, you don't own your BTC by turc1656 on Monday January 06, 2020 @10:42AM (#21969922)
It's not different. I think that's their point. FOSS like Linux doesn't automagically make it "safer" than proprietary systems like Windows.