Re:Why Dell's ThinOS Runs on FreeBSD
by darkwater on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @10:25AM
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Well, the "security though obscurity" principle has been used for many years now to cover alleged extra protections granted by the mere fact of keeping a software source code closed and secret. As in: you will not find that RCE in the software if you don't have access to the source code. And this statement from Dell and the FreeBSD foundation (yeah, it's not just Dell) clearly follows that line of thought.
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That is simply a mistaken understanding. Keeping source code closed is obviously a legitimate form of security if the source code itself contains proprietary trade secrets (such as hardware details).
No reasonable person could disagree; the proposition is so self-evident it's virtually tautological.
Well, language and meanings evolve over time and you cannot control how they do it.
Also, how protecting trade secrets via closed source "creates a robust platform less susceptible to attacks than a CopyLeft-based system with GPL components."?