There was a top post on HN just the other day about "security by obscurity", and how the concept is often misunderstood. You are invoking the age-old closed vs

There was a top post on HN just the other day about "security by obscurity", and how the concept is often misunderstood. You are invoking the age-old closed vs open source argument - essentially, security by obscurity, but I'm not convinced it's a boon in this case. I believe govs using OSS is a net positive for humankind: there are many more minds and eyeballs on the code, and many more beneficiaries of the code.