Well I use it as the counterargument to "open source software is full of holes because bad guys can read the source". Because everyone knows that Microsoft does

Well I use it as the counterargument to "open source software is full of holes because bad guys can read the source". Because everyone knows that Microsoft doesn't publish their source code and has never been exploited ever. My point was simply that obsfucation will barely even slow down a determined attacker, ESPECIALLY one with the resources of a nation state (such as the US). It won't even register as a speed bump to anything other than a script kiddie or a worm designed for the majority case. I'm really kind of shocked that my previous comment was voted -1, when the numbers blatantly agree with me on closed source vendors getting the living snot hacked out of them, even if their source is "obscured" due to not being available.