Is free forum software easier to hack?
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Not necessarily. Nothing is hack free or paid more or less. If a average hacker wants to hack into something they will sooner or later, honestly. Lets us use John Podesta emails as an example which were 'hacked' if that is what you want to call it, but considering his password was literally 'p@ssw0rd'. A average 14 year old could have guessed it sooner or later. That was a Hillary Clinton's closest aide, but one thing you need to worry less about is directly being hacked most hacks are done directly from your own PC or negligence on your own part from having proper anti-virus software to defend against Trojans or Keyloggers.
I personally have not been hacked for years due to taking extra steps and using more secured passwords that are at least by average 30 characters long.
But as to the main point, no. It is just a myth based off common sense alone.
I personally have not been hacked for years due to taking extra steps and using more secured passwords that are at least by average 30 characters long.
But as to the main point, no. It is just a myth based off common sense alone.
Ahmad abbas
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It relies upon on who you speak to. Open-source advocates indicates that it's far manner greater relaxed than closed supply, subsequently greater hard to hack. Usually, this team makes use of Linus's Law which states: “Given enough eye-balls, all insects are shallow”.
The other group suggests that due to the fact it is open-source, and due to the fact it's far available to all and sundry, together with hackers to check out, it's far a whole lot greater less complicated to find and make the most protection insects.
From enjoy, auditing thousands and thousands of strains of code as a security code assessment engineer, and hacking masses of packages as a pentester. I can effectively say that it's far as easy or tough to hack open-supply as it is to hack closed-supply code.
The other group suggests that due to the fact it is open-source, and due to the fact it's far available to all and sundry, together with hackers to check out, it's far a whole lot greater less complicated to find and make the most protection insects.
From enjoy, auditing thousands and thousands of strains of code as a security code assessment engineer, and hacking masses of packages as a pentester. I can effectively say that it's far as easy or tough to hack open-supply as it is to hack closed-supply code.
No, paid softwares pay to have their softwares edited and checked by professionals. The free ones scramble to patch up holes and sometimes create new holes while fixing the old ones.
I've ran forums on both and only the free ones were hacked. Of course it doesn't feel like hacking is much of an issue these days because forums are dying and nobody cares about ruining something that already has one foot in the grave.
I do know spam can be just as bad on a XenForo one as free software - assuming that you don't make registrants write words backward or some other trick. But those tricks are not well-known - so I bet a lot of XenForo users are frustrated (using the default captcha).
It's not about frrreeeee oorrr ppaaaiiiddd. It's about age. Aaaggeeee. Age.
The older the code-base is and the more expansive and all-encompassing it is, the harder it is to modernise it to deal with modern threats.
Some of these forums are over a million lines of lines long, can you imagine that? That's the size of some triple A games. And they don't need to be either, but that's their legacy showing through.
The older the code-base is and the more expansive and all-encompassing it is, the harder it is to modernise it to deal with modern threats.
Some of these forums are over a million lines of lines long, can you imagine that? That's the size of some triple A games. And they don't need to be either, but that's their legacy showing through.
Most likely, yes.
Although, they're also pushed to add a lot of functionality all the time, but technologically speaking, they're probably over five years ahead of the free players, minus NodeBB / Discourse, as they offer the software for free there, but have an official paid hosting service.
Those two are probably more modern than the paid players. Still, it's not like they're doing it for free, they have a service to pay the bills.
I think this is more to do with the fact that many people have just lost the passion for forums and generally developing forums. Also, with more advanced new players, there isn't much enthusiasm for modernising older systems.
The main problem with the more modern players, of course, is that their interfaces are alien to anyone who has ever used a forum. If you look at the commit history of new players, they're extraordinarily active, while some major players are nearly dead in the water.
That's not a free software is bad. That's lack of interest. Disinterested developers.
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