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> Whoops! So much for open source allowing for greater scrutiny and security.

I think you're jumping to conclusions here. For one it did get detected, secondly the theory is that faults are detected earlier and fixed faster, not that they don't occur at all. So no matter how long this has been in the wild, the question is how long it would have been there if it had not been open source. My guess is in this particular case just as long, but there are many other cases besides this one.



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