News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The boiling frog of digital freedom. Parent comment

Re:The boiling frog of digital freedom by wincy on Sunday September 03, 2023 @08:49AM (#37370006)
Don’t you think in the long term this would result in better source code and hardened software, similar to what’s happened with the Linux source code?

Right now the NSA just has all the 0days instead.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The boiling frog of digital freedom by passion__desire on Sunday September 03, 2023 @08:58AM (#37370047)
I agree with you, I am just highlighting companies' thinking why they would wanna protect their source code. security by obscurity. Also having a copy of source could also mean the companies might have cut corners. Many leaks of future products are now guessed from source code. Also it is so easy to copy as well by other companies.
[ Parent | on HN ]