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>A group of automobile manufacturers said that opening the code to scrutiny could create “serious threats to safety and security.”

I think it is tremendously difficult for the layman to understand that obscurity is not security. In fact it's counter-intuitive at first.



Obscurity is not security. True.

Transparency is not security. Also true.


But transparency is a prerequisite for security. Free software isn't necessarily secure, but only if its free software can we check and verify or fix it and distribute modified versions.


That was true when the incentive was for vulnerabilities to be disclosed and fixed for the good of all, but sadly today, vulnerabilities are extremely valuable and so the incentive is for them to be sold to the powerful.




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