Is GnuCash Secure?

[tnicolle]

Hi Greg,

Thank you for your response. I appreciate it greatly. I will have to look at it and see if this works for me. I am looking for something to spend as little time on data input as possible. If I have to allocated things once entered that is okay. The system I use now has not worked for me. It is Wave Accounting. I don’t know why so many people use it because I have had nothing but issues with bad bank connections, duplicate entires etc. The only thing I like about Wave is that it can connect to so many different institutions and download the transactions automatically. The trade-off in time to fix everything though so far has not been worth it.

Thanks again.

Tom

Tom Nicolle CPA, CA, CFA
(514) 984-2971
(902) 223-2971




> On May 2, 2017, at 12:38 AM, 51183341 [via GnuCash] <ml+s1415818n4691389h13 at n4.nabble.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello, 
> 
> Am Mon, 1 May 2017 08:31:35 -0700 (PDT) 
> schrieb tnicolle <[hidden email] <x-msg://6/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4691389&i=0>>: 
> 
> > I am not a programmer so I don't really understand the concept of open 
> > source and what this means from a security point of view. As I do 
> > understand it, I believe it means that anyone can modify the source 
> > code to change it and that is how improvements are made. 
> > 
> > If this is the case, I wonder then what stops a developer from going 
> > into the source code and changing it with malicious intent to grant 
> > access or create virus problems etc. 
> 
> What does a proprietary vendor stop from inserting malicious code? 
> And how could users detect that in case of secret source code? 
> 
> The point of free software is you trust a worldwide distributed net of 
> independent developers instead of a single entity controlled by a 
> (foreign) government. 
> 
> That does not mean free software is always secure, but it means that 
> users have a chance to verify its security. In free software users have 
> the power. 
> 
> Freedom in software is a prerequisite for secure software. 
> 
> Greg 
> 
> 
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