Typically a source code leak is a safety danger. But with open source applications it is available from the start. How do you prevent people from intruding when all safety measurements can be plainly seen?
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Code leak is not a safety danger unless the code itself is a safety danger to begin with.
Security through obscurity is nonsense, properly secure software is built so it doesn’t matter if the attacker knows how it’s built, they still have no access.
Now, open source doesn’t make things perfect, but it does display all the embarrassing mistakes to the entire world to see making it more likely they actually get fixed. With closed source these mistakes are usually wiped under the carpet in hopes that nobody ever finds out. Sooner or later, they always find out and then security through obscurity fails miserably.
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