Open-Sourcing a Market. Discuss.

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With the recent mess of markets I thought it nice to lighten the feed with a discussion.

The possibility of open sourcing a market, either it be negatives and positives of completely transparency, or the election of vetted developers to build, I'm curious if others see it as a likely possibility to come or as an extreme security risk/unlikely event.

Understandably right of the bat a negative to complete transparency is that it opens up the possibility of copy cat markets.

Discussion must also take into variable stuff such as that Tor is set to release updates to better hide sites.

(Edit was purely to add discussion points)


Comments


[3 Points] InsanityDRM:

An Open-source market in my opinion, is potentially the worst idea ever. It opens up a whole new can of worms and issues for any DNM.


[1 Points] fa-yeerrr:

Open source as in open the source code by uploading it to github? For security reasons, yes it's a good idea. The community will be able to find bugs, exploits and weaknesses faster for the developers to patch them asap.

Your opsec tools like PGP and Tor are open source. Did that hurt you in anyway? No. Those tools are more secure and the development more transparent. As in you know it's safe to use.

You never know, some of these DNMs might have backdoors and exploits in them for LE to get access to your information.


[1 Points] throwawayyyyyyyy32yb:

I already said before this a great idea, currently my understanding of web development and tor is not big enough but I think this is a great idea, allows everyone to search for exploits that can get fixed fast


[1 Points] dncrumbs:

Open source and decentralization is the future.* Shutting down a marketplace should not be as simple as finding one guy and seizing his servers.

*The future of dnm, at least. On the clearnet I would say it's the present.