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by ghostpepper 1249 days ago
If anything I think this underscores the parent comment - open source is not inherently more secure than closed, it just adds another potential avenue (source code audit) to ensure security.

If nobody actually audits the source, and the closed-source binary has had other types of testing done on it, it's likely that the closed source binary will be more secure.

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Yes, my comment was in support of its parent. If reading a million lines is hard, reading ~30 million is harder.