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> no way to demonstrate (or even provide evidence of) the absence of any vulnerabilities

I'd say that's hard for open source software to do as well.

Sure, but so what? Hard != impossible.

EDIT: WTF people? Why is every response to this comment being downvoted into oblivion? The sibling comment to this one (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13395657) was killed in a matter of minutes despite being (IMHO) a perfectly reasonable and constructive response.

Big Backdoor showing who's boss.

Votes aren't why that comment is dead --- note that it doesn't say "flagged". There is stuff that happens behind the scenes that [deads] users, especially new accounts; I think some of it might be voting ring related but not sure.

(That comment is incorrect but I agree with you that it's constructive).

It seems to have come back from the dead too :-)

Reanimation powers are hidden behind the "vouch" link :)

Yes but it is trivial to backdoor closed source software.

Introducing backdoors into open source source is also more difficult.

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