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by pcr0 2222 days ago
This makes a pretty good argument for open-sourcing OS software.

"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" - Linus Torvalds

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You assume that because many people could look for bugs, many people do.

I added an easter egg to a widely used piece of software many year ago. Noone discovered it until another maintainer published it, maybe a decade later.