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1 story · open in the command center
Discourse is reaffirming its commitment to open source despite Cal.com's decision to close their codebase due to AI-powered vulnerability scanning concerns. While AI tools like GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 can rapidly discover security issues in public code, Discourse argues this actually strengthens their security posture by enabling their team, contributors, and researchers to proactively identify and fix vulnerabilities—finding 50 issues in their last release through AI scanning. The article contends that closing source code provides false security since SaaS applications expose significant attack surface through browser-delivered code and APIs anyway, while reducing the number of defenders who can help identify problems.