Originally Posted by berlinflyer83

I strongly disagree.

There's nothing inherently insecure about source code being publicly available.

The problem is that attackers now have visibility into the poor coding skills ofSymantec and are now able to craft new attacks. Had the source code been available all along, things like this wouldn't really be an issue. Symantec is probably aware of existing vulnerabilities that they didn't take the time to fix, but now might be obvious to a skilled coder. Bad, bad, bad.