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Well, I guess, the source code sooner or later is accessible to _somebody_ at _some_ development stage or in _some_ version.

But can we really trust companies that work with the NSA to sell us the version compiled _without_ the backdoors?

Plus, always keep in mind that these companies have lied to us about PRISM - with straight faces.

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By "closed-source", I meant "researchers don't have the source code". And yet they find vulnerabilities anyways. It's not 1995 anymore. Vulnerability researchers tend to have pretty good tools for reading assembly.

While it is not technically impossible to discover backdoors in closed source software, I'd say it's essential for me to trust crypto-software that it is open source.

That being said, it is probably feasible to hide a backdoor even in open source software. But it is still easier in closed source software.

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