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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Open source means that you can see the source code, meaning the instructions that the computer is given to carry out. So if the person writing the code had put anything malicious into it, people would see it and warn everybody about it.

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