I always see people looking specifically for open source software and never knew why. Thanks!
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* you can see the source code. This means even if _you_ can’t read it, others can and if it’s popular enough it’s likely you’ll find out through the grapevine if it’s doing something sketchy
* People can fix and submit bugs. A lot of closed-source for-profit companies rely on “security through obscurity,” and often prefer to hide security vulnerabilities instead of fixing them.
* Safety is about more than just “getting hacked,” and open source provides a lot of other benefits such as knowing you’ll always have access to the software, the organization being forced to listen to it’s community (otherwise the community will just take the software and release their own version), and often times the software being more cross-platform than it’s closed source counterparts.
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