Is Open Source really more secure than closed?
Advocates derive their dogmatic faith in the implicit security of Open Source code from the concept of "peer review," a cornerstone of the scientific process in which published papers and theories are scrutinized by experts other than the authors. The more peers that review the work, the less likely it is that it will contains errors, and the more likely it is to become accepted.
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