The title is pretty self explanatory, but will opensource software become less and less safe compared to "big company software", as big companies gain access to more and more advanced AI to test for their vulnerabilities? Or even malicious actors gaining access to more advanced AI, able to break into opensource software made by a small team easier? Should a privacy oriented person then stay away from such software?

And, yes ... I'm tired of AI, AI, and more AI.

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[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I think all sofrware is less safe now. The advantage for open source is that they willl weed out the failures quicker and the disadvantage for closed source is that they have to deal with the problem that they no longer have a "security by obscurity". So I'd say for open source it's a tough time, but essentiallly pretty much the same, while close source clearly has a bigger problem.