Exactly.. Open source is awesome, don't get me wrong, but it's not safer by definition. Sure, people can look for problems and openly discuss it and fix it, but

Exactly.. Open source is awesome, don't get me wrong, but it's not safer by definition. Sure, people can look for problems and openly discuss it and fix it, but that's assuming they are whitehats. Blackhats are also looking, all day every day, for exploits in open-source code. And they can find them before whitehats do.