I recently learned that my company prefers closed-source tools for privacy and security.

I don’t know whether the person who said that was just confused, but I am trying to come up with reasons to opt to closed-source for privacy.

  • UnfortunateShort
    5•6 hours ago

    You can make an argument for confidentiality making it harder to find exploits in your code. If nobody cares enough to report them to you, or if you don’t have the resources to fix them, open-sourcing your code just exposes them.

    This is pretty much only an argument if you use stuff that would be irresponsible to use in the first place tho

    • @JubilantJaguar
      1•5 hours ago

      If nobody cares enough to report them to you, or if you don’t have the resources to fix them

      To be fair, this scenario does feel worryingly like it might be common.