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by sabas123 1350 days ago
> This article seems to assume that computers are secure as long as source code is secret. The opposite is true, only open source can give maxium security.

Citation needed, open source can just have as problematic security problems as closed source even when they are high profile.

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Random web search: https://ithemes.com/blog/security-vs-security-through-obscur... (And that points to NIST)

Nobody said that open source has no security bugs. No software that does something useful is bug-free.