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Firefox is on the brink of being dropped by the US Government (www.brycewray.com)
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[–] tabular@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

More eyeballs are from people wanting those flaws fixed that wanting to exploit them.

Proprietary source code has much fewer eyeballs, none of which you can verify belong to competent or trustworthy people.