The response from Discourse (the code base running this site) to Cal.com going close source is worth a read:
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I saw this thing about cal.com yesterday. They are clearly throwing the baby out with the bathwater. They’ve built an insecure app, and now that AI tools have exposed it for what it is, they are effectively saying that rather than create a secure application they are going into hiding. I don’t see how that can give confidence to their users.
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One related point I thought was worth highlighting from the article is that it does mean that software projects of every scale should assume that our source code is being examined closely, since searching for vulnerabilities is so much easier for criminal organisations. We should specifically pentest against AI vulnerability scanning.
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