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by SahAssar 654 days ago
How would a third party client make it easier to breach the protocol? You can still study the source of the client, the protocol, make a fork of it and modify it, etc. The official client is fully open source.

The argument for security for disallowing other clients would be being able to modify the protocol to patch out security issues without worrying about compatibility with other clients.