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Comment Re:Security through Obscurity (Score 5, Insightful) 129

With closed source there are also no guarantees the bad guys won't see the source either. And it's far better to make the code visible to all then to wait for the exploit to be found in the usual ways while everyone was in the dark about it.

Security through obscurity is just like peril-sensitive sunglasses. Having the code visible makes you nervous for some reason? Well we'll just keep you from seeing it! Problem solved!

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