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Re:On the spectrum of openness by gloriousternary on Monday March 29, 2021 @05:05PM (#26628166)
On the other hand, would hackers target something that small? It seems to me like the benefits and drawbacks of open source for security would kick in around the same scale.
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Re:On the spectrum of openness by munchbunny on Monday March 29, 2021 @05:09PM (#26628203)
Yes and no. Popularity or user base and number of engineers looking at the code are probably correlated, but there are definitely exceptions, like:

* small NPM packages depended on by popular ones

* video game mods and tools

* open source end user utilities

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