On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 6:50 PM, Henrik Nordström <[email protected]> wrote: > sön 2016-08-21 klockan 21:55 +0100 skrev Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton: > >> > >> > From a security point of view, open source code >> >> no it isn't... *libre* source code is... > > I would love to hear your elaboration on how libre source code is more > secure than open source. I don't see how libre have any relevance > there. > > Having access to the complete readable sourcecode and being developed > in a trustworthy environment is very relevant. But that is by no means > unique to libre or even proven to be an natural effect of libre.
thanks for picking up on that, henrik. so you're saying that if the source is "open" it's no different from "libre" because in both cases the full source is available. so it would only be instances where the source *isn't* available (and the binary was encrypted with an RSA key, then loaded into a separate virtual memory space which was made inaccessible to even read)... but that would, yes, be an instance where source... wasn't available :) l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
