Hello everyone, We built clubsall, a frontend for federated content. Since the goal is to help build a reddit competitor, open sourcing is the logical next step.

However, without a review, I am afraid website could get hacked quickly.

Does someone with experience in scanning code for security issues or white hat hacking wants to help increase confidence so I can open source it?

  • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    As someone who works in software engineering and has experience in multiple languages, infosec, as well as working through compliance with multiple certification standards, I’d be happy to help, provided one of two conditions is met:

    1. You pay me my salary rate, with a minimum of 10 hours, half in advance and report available after receipt of full payment (grew up with tradespeople and a lot about working with clients comes from what I learned from them).

    Or,

    1. The code base is fully, and permanently open-sourced, prior to code review. This means licensing under GPL, LGPL, MIT, or BSD licenses, or equivalent, not “source available”.
  • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
    25·
    2 days ago

    Obscurity is not security, so you could argue that you should just open source it anyway. Any security holes present are also there right now - the fact that the source code is not available is irrelevant.

    But if you insist, it may help if you say what programming language is used.

    • BlazeEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      OP mentioned typescript, next, React in another comment, but no backend language

      • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
        12·
        2 days ago

        Yea - when it comes to a security review, it’s really the backend that matters the most though.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      Agreed. Open source it and let everyone review it.

      But even if you don’t have experience, it’s easy to gain. Start with OWASP, find some static code analysis tools, and run fuzzers. It’s a good start.