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@yarinsiz What he's saying is having the source makes attacks faster to spread, what he isn't saying is that THERE ARE MORE ATTACKS POSSIBLE.

It's sort of tangential to the 'is it safer' question.

If there are far fewer successful attacks because the code is reviewed better. or the attacks are far more minor, then it follows that open source is better, even if attacks take 3 days less to spread.
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