The question is simple. I wanted to get a general consensus on if people actually audit the code that they use from FOSS or open source software or apps.

Do you blindly trust the FOSS community? I am trying to get a rough idea here. Sometimes audit the code? Only on mission critical apps? Not at all?

Let’s hear it!

  • petersr@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    What if the software is just so flawlessly written that there are not CVEs?

    /s

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      I maintained an open-source app for many years. It leveraged a crypto library but allowed for different algos, or none at all for testing.

      Some guy wrote a CVE about “when I disable all crypto it doesn’t use crypto”. So there’s that. It’s the only CVE we got before or during my time.

      But even we got one.