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by pixl97 3769 days ago
>2. A free system can much more easily be compromised by the injection of cloaked vulnerabilities by actors such as the NSA.

I can't see how that is possibly the case. With a non free system the NSA just has to show up with a national security letter and a gag order and the system is compromised.

With the free system the NSA has to push, or get a submitter to push an update that gets missed by anybody that looks at the code.