Like a privacy based fully open source browser. Wouldnt it be more hackable because every one know the script and is a glopal privacy based gpay alternative possible ? What about targeted hacking is someone using closed source application more better off than someone with ooen source ?
Most of the services you use every day run on Linux servers. Even Microsoft uses Linux on their servers. And these services, not an average laptop, are the main targets of malicious actors.
The vast majority of behind-the-scenes infra that the end user never sees are open-source, even if the end-user part is proprietary. Eg. Facebook and Xwitter are proprietary, but run on open-source infrastructure like Docker, Kubernetes, Nginx etc.
Proprietary OS-s are workstation/office/home PC land. They have way more security issues due to crap coding whereas security problems with open-source server stuff are as a rule the fault of the admins misconfiguring services and not keeping their software up to date.
Linux servers are hacked left and right on a daily basis.
Yes, because vast majority of orgs both in private and public sectors suck at securing their systems. Either:
-The admins lack the knowledge and skills to properly configure their stuff.
-The admins are not given the resources they need to update and secure the systems.
-The in-house parts of the system rely on some deprecated functionality of an old version of some underlying service. Updating in-house parts to make it work with new versions is not made possible because “Phil knew how but Phil was laid off 10 years ago” or “the company who made it is out of business” or “we don’t have the money to do it” or “it works now, so why bother?”
-The servers are fine, up-to-date and secure, but the in-house service itself has glaring security issues that go unfixed due to above reasons.
And thus came along little Bobby Tables and was able to completely incapacitate his school district…
Generally a Linux installation is very good at keeping itself up-to-date and installing security patches automagically. Updating Docker containers is somewhat more involved, but can be easily automated with Watchtower.