alt Hacker Newsa lot of open source software had a false sense of being secure with the assumption that someone else would have audited the code
Do you have examples of people saying this? I don't think I've come across idea being espoused...
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jansan • today at 1:33 PM
I do not have an example for this, but the most ridiculous argument for open source software (at lease for most people) has always been that if the software has a bug you could simply fix it yourself. Funny enough this has actually become kind of true with new LLMs.
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I've certainly seen people interpret Linus's law to mean this. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus's_law).