I support free and open source software (FOSS) like VLC, Qbittorrent, LibreOffice, Gimp…
But why do people say that it’s as secure or more secure than closed source software?
From what I understand, closed source software don’t disclose their code.
If you want to see the source code of Photoshop, you actually need to work for Adobe. Otherwise, you need to be some kind of freaking retro-engineering expert.
But open source has their code available to the entire world on websites like Github or Gitlab.
Isn’t that actually also helping hackers?
Closed source you have to take the word of the owner, who’s out to get your money.
Open source you have to take the word of a whole community, or you could just go and look yourself.
In the end there is also a personal responsibility; there is no promise or guarantee in the whole world that’ll prevent you from being stupid with what you download or install.