So if it wasn't open source, how would you go about discovering Heartbleed? It was discovered independently by multiple people beacause it was open source - so

So if it wasn't open source, how would you go about discovering Heartbleed? It was discovered independently by multiple people beacause it was open source - so contrary to your naive assumption, people are looking at these things. Here is a story how it happened and how it was patched - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed#Discovery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed#Discovery Are you really arguing that discovering and fixing Heartbleed would be simpler and faster in a closed source form?