> if they were forced to release source code then I think they would know they were being watched and would act less horribly, at the very least. It's the same

> if they were forced to release source code then I think they would know they were being watched and would act less horribly, at the very least. It's the same reason why you almost never see backdoors in free software. Just knowing that you could be watched makes it a lot harder to be sneaky, even if nobody is actually watching. Same principle as having placebo cameras that are actually non-functioning.