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A comment on Ask HN: Is Heartbleed a good argument for using closed source?.

Re:Ask HN: Is Heartbleed a good argument for using closed so... by LeoSolaris on Thursday April 10, 2014 @11:02AM (#7566717)
Quite the opposite, as total mentioned. If this had been closed source, we would have not known about the bug, and it likely would have stayed around for a lot longer... until someone wanted to modify that particular part, or do a fresh rewrite from scratch.
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Re:Ask HN: Is Heartbleed a good argument for using closed so... by jheriko on Thursday April 10, 2014 @11:35AM (#7567067)
sure, i do mention this - but what about the difficulty in finding the vulnerability?
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