Why is open source software considered safer than other software you can find online?

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I always see people looking specifically for open source software and never knew why. Thanks!

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It’s hard to add malicious code when there are so many eyeballs developing and monitoring code. That doesn’t mean it is impossible – XZ Utils in Linux had a backdoor with a CVSS score of 10.0, the highest possible, meaning remote code execution is possible (which is bad).

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