Last Years Open Source – Tomorrow’s Vulnerabilities

Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux and Git, has his own law in software development, and it goes like this: « given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. » This phrase puts the finger on the very principle of open source: the more, the merrier – if the code is easily available for anyone and everyone to fix bugs, it’s pretty safe. But is it? Or is the saying « all bugs are shallow » only true for

Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux and Git, has his own law in software development, and it goes like this: « given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. » This phrase puts the finger on the very principle of open source: the more, the merrier – if the code is easily available for anyone and everyone to fix bugs, it’s pretty safe. But is it? Or is the saying « all bugs are shallow » only true for