I mean, it shouldn't. Humanity is perfectly capable of building secure web services without having to keep the way it works a secret. You don't publish your encryption keys with your source code, which is what your security should be depending on.
And what's more, Reddit themselves did not even use that excuse in their official statement for it, even though to me their excuse felt even less logical.
Basically, they don't want to leak the crazy features that they're developing and have such piss-poor source code management that they cannot provide tarballs of clean states of their source code.
I mean, how do they deploy new versions, if they cannot cleanly separate feature development from stable code?
And what's more, Reddit themselves did not even use that excuse in their official statement for it, even though to me their excuse felt even less logical.
Basically, they don't want to leak the crazy features that they're developing and have such piss-poor source code management that they cannot provide tarballs of clean states of their source code.
I mean, how do they deploy new versions, if they cannot cleanly separate feature development from stable code?
https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/6xfyfg/an_update...