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[–] [Deleted] 1 points (+1|-0)

personally, i strongly disagree. i hate to poopoo on the open source parade but while it allows peer review, it also gives direct access to everybody to hunt down where the weak points are. there is not and never will be a perfectly secure system, there are only obfuscation techniques to make it more difficult and they start with not handing foreign nations the source code of our democracy.

[–] CDanger 1 points (+1|-0)

Basically every security researcher disagrees with you. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/04/schneiers_law.html

A system is not secure just because of a hidden design that keeps the internals away from the public. A design that is open for review can be more secure since its security rests on logic that withstands numerous public attacks.