Fri Oct 9 14:02:03 EEST 2020

Closed vs open source in light of the windows leak of 2020-09-25

Closed vs open source in light of the windows leak of 2020-09-25

There is debate which is more secure: closed or open source.

Since the answer is very complicated and depends on many factors, we are over simplifying things.

On 2020-09-25 microsoft's windows source leaked [1].

Closed source advocates claim closed source is more secure, since the closed is secret.

Q1: To what extent the m$ leak disproves the above claim about secrecy?

XXXfix

Assume that in the near future the number of m$ vulnerabilities:

  1. Greatly increase or
  2. Stay at the same level or
  3. Greatly decrease XXX?

Could this be related to the leak and what conclusions follow?

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