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.

  • navi@lemmy.tespia.org
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    8 hours ago

    Security through obscurity isn’t security.

    The classic example:

    I have a website with no authentication which displays data that really should be locked down. But it’s OK because I never told anyone else the URL so no one will find it.

    • s38b35M5@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      I never told anyone else the URL so no one will find it.

      Who wants to tell them about DNS records and web crawlers?