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.
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.
That smokescreen argument makes a lot of sense. Both the company and our clients, tend to opt for ready out-of-the-box proprietary solutions, instead of taking responsibility of the maintenance.
It doesn’t matter how bad or limiting that proprietary option is. As long as it somewhat fits our scenario and requires less code, it’s fine.
I don’t think it does. Remember the Crowdstrike blunder? Remember how many people blamed Windows?
People don’t know or care who is managing your security.
This is why, they prefer to shift the blame in case it hits the fan. That’s all, that’s it.
They don’t care about code quality, maintainability or whatever.
When you get right down to it, it’s all risk management.