(2020-08-23, 09:20 PM)Torque Wrote: Doesn't being open source give hackers a better opportunity to create clients that can manipulate a server? What's being put in place to prevent this.
Doesn't that also mean people who can fix safety issues, get a chance to do so in a much easier way than trying to disassemble everything too, just like any real reverse-engineer/hacker would do, and still "hack"?
And yes, a lot of open source software does have bugs/faults that are more easily abused/misused, but it's not like closed source systems are that much better at security. SA-MP is a really good example..
(2020-08-22, 02:50 AM)Torque Wrote: I think open source is a bad idea to begin with. May be let the project run for 12 months closed source first. Otherwise the community will be immediately divided into 10, 20, maybe even 100 different versions of the community. Keep everybody in one place to begin with.
Is that what happened to MTA? I don't think so :) We shouldn't worry too much, history repeats itself.