Not discrediting Open Source Software, but nothing is 100% safe.

  • Dr. Jenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube
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    1 year ago

    See the first bullet point. I was referring to any code that is distributed.

    Yeah, there’s no way to really audit code running on a remote server with the exception of fuzzing. Hell, even FOSS can’t be properly audited on a remote server because you kind of have to trust that they’re running the version of the source code they say they are.

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      1 year ago

      You can always brute force the SSH login and take a look around yourself. If you leave an apology.txt file in /home, I’m sure the admin won’t mind.

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          1 year ago

          That’s not universally true, at least if you’re not on the same LAN. For example, most small-scale apps hosted on VPSs are typically configured with a public-facing SSH login.