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It’s really not harder for the folks with this skill set, and plenty of these vulnerabilities have been found in VMware too over the years.

https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/KORTCHINSKY...

https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/vmware-z...

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/vmw...

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It is always harder, because it always take more time. We don't know the ratio (how many bugs more would have been found if VMware would be open source)

We can agree to disagree. I just don’t think it’s the high order bit in determining the rate of vulnerability discovery - in my opinion the commercial utility (white / black / grey) of the exploits is a more important factor in determining how quickly they are found.

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