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Help me open source ClubsAll - need a senior security engineer to review code (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Typescript, Next, Cloudflare

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

TypeScript for the backend too? Sorry, can't help with that. But I'd say just open source it anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I already mentioned those in another comment (https://lemmy.world/comment/12877250) with React as well, but those are all frontend languages.

Which languages was used for the backend?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can write backbends in Typescript, It's what the *keys use.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks, I didn't know