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101 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 2 May \ on: Where is Bitcoin and Lightning's Red Team? bitcoin
I think this is more cultural than needing to be specifically outlined in OSS. The majority of eyes on decentralized/oss are the users of it.
Is this person equally concerned with the supply chain as well? libs, operating sytems, and so on?
Based on all the Lightning FUD that comes from grantees, competing initiatives to Lightning are that by default.
There's disincentives at work in a sponsored red team model... at least a bounty or successful attack is based on results
Implementations are also not the network, who's to say whom Lightning Labs or Blockstream hire for review in private?
Maybe because no one uses this one in the first place?
Probably because it's antiquated, was more of a closed-source commercial thing. Who needs it more? Microsoft or Debian?
That and not just from he honeypot aspect, FUD as mentioned above is incentivized by competition... and its already a david .v goliath battle.
The only alternative is fighting the last war
Seems like the wrong question unless we assume resources are infinite? Assuming not, should it be a higher priority? Empirically there seems to be little to no justification for it.