> Actually, it's worse than that, because unlike normal banks, the code used by these digital banks is open source, and anyone in the world can go bug hunting.
An argument that open source is less secure, and on Hacker News! Now I've seen it all.
An argument that open source is less secure, and on Hacker News! Now I've seen it all.
Military cryptographic systems, IBM mainframes, and many other products use this approach as a layer in their security framework and it is actually pretty successful.
If I asked you to break into the a PFSense box you could just Google "PFSense version X.X.X CVEs" and you would probably get a way in if the box was enough out of date, but if you tried to find the same thing for something like the General Dynamics TACLANE you would have a hard time even finding where to start.