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Re:After 7 Months, Glasswing Overwelms Maintainers with Unde... by DenisM on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @09:39PM (#50449165)
> I suspect open source projects are better off than proprietary software - they already have many eyes on them

This has been disproven by the sordid history of OpenSSL. It was open source, critical, and full of holes.

https://www.mend.io/blog/how-the-heartbleed-vulnerability-sh...

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Re:After 7 Months, Glasswing Overwelms Maintainers with Unde... by kennywinker on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @12:47AM (#50450099)
Single datapoint does not prove anything at all, but it is a data point.
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