I support free and open source software (FOSS) like VLC, Qbittorrent, LibreOffice, Gimp…
But why do people say that it’s as secure or more secure than closed source software?
From what I understand, closed source software don’t disclose their code.
If you want to see the source code of Photoshop, you actually need to work for Adobe. Otherwise, you need to be some kind of freaking retro-engineering expert.
But open source has their code available to the entire world on websites like Github or Gitlab.
Isn’t that actually also helping hackers?
Evil hackers don’t need help and don’t want help.
On the other side, there have been cases where evil programmers have brought malicious code into open source software, and it got found out because that code is public, and it got repaired and reported publicly.
Shame on these hackers.
I don’t think you’ll get much shame out of hackers. Most are incorrigible trolls or politically motivated (and occasionally both); their moral centres are non-existent or aligned very differently.
You might get an apology from the odd individual who was on the cusp of growing up anyway, but everyone else is a dead loss.