Re: [swinog] Hot Red Flames (Was: IRC Server dead ?)

Jeroen Massar wrote:

And of course, with Open Source: did you check every single line of the source, and that of the compiler, and all the tools that that was made with etc etc etc? Ah, indeed you didn't, thus please don't claim that "Open Source" is "more secure" because you have the source, because it is impossible to check.

The idea of open source is not so much that you get to check it yourself, but much more that it is open for hundreds of thousands of other people to check. If for instance the quality/security of a piece of code is proportional to the number of times it's been reviewed, then yes, open source is quite possibly more secure.

/Per Jessen, Herrliberg ZH