How are open source programs safe? Doesn’t open source make it easy for hackers to find vulnerabilities or contribute malicious code?

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Perhaps I need a better understanding of what open source means, but how can a program that is openly publishing its code not be super vulnerable to cyber security threats. That’s like a bank publishing exactly how all it’s security works right? Obviously I’m missing something here, so ELI5!

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There are good people and there are bad people.

Generally speaking, there are more good people than bad or we would have died out thousands of years ago.

The good people find and fix any vulnerabilities the small number of bad people might add.

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