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		motters on May 5, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: John McAfee releases secure anti-surveillance mess... If the source code isn't available then any claims to being secure should be treated cautiously. For instance, how do we know that there aren't heartbleed-style errors in this anti-surveillance app?

riquito on May 5, 2014 [–]

I love open source, but we didn't know about heartbleed even with the sources available.

skj on May 5, 2014 | [–]

I think that it's rather because the source was available, we eventually found out about heartbleed.

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