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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Because obscurity is the worst form of security. It is relatively trivial to turn closed source into something human readable, so you are gaining very little security by keeping things closed. On the other hand, the more people that examine the code, the more likely issues will be discovered, so in that way open source can in fact be more secure than keeping things hidden.
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