PSA: Don't open-source everything!

[boatbomber (Zack Williams)]

@1TheNoobestNoob

I’m just going to state that I open-source stuff, I hope you don’t think of me as one who hates open-sourcing things because I don’t know what it is. I’m in fact a creator of several open-sourced projects myself, so if I were against open-sourcing, I wouldn’t have released them to the public at all!

I started my reply with a disclaimer that you’re cool.

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@1TheNoobestNoob

But what you have listed is not what I was aiming for! HashLib, Raycasting module and all those “modules” are not in the scope of my PSA.

I addressed that as well.

Alright, but some of those may not be fair examples because they aren’t full systems, but just pieces for you to implement into your own.
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@berezaa open sourced Miner’s Haven. Your post implies that such a popular project with such incentives to exploit would totally been cracked by now, but it hasn’t…
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Your post gave no examples of an open source going sour, and only gave an example of it going well. Not the best way to make your point, is it?

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@1TheNoobestNoob

I believe that open-sourcing something of which can expose a security risk on end-users (the end-users of the said services) should be avoided.

This was my conclusion.

What you meant to say was “Don’t open source poorly written security features and terribly stored secrets.”