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Comment by fnordsensei

8 days ago

Just because it’s open source doesn’t mean it’s well tested, or well pen tested, or whatever the applicable security aspect is.

It could also mean that attacks against it are high value (because of high distribution).

Point is, license isn’t a great security parameter in and of itself IMO.

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