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Okay, but your original claim was:

Anonymity is the unique aspect of open source that opens the door for malicious activity without consequences.

If you'd like to amend to something like

Anonymity, which is in play for most FOSS and a decent chunk of proprietary software, opens the door for malicious activity without consequences.

Then I wouldn't strongly disagree. I'm still a little skeptical, because people keep finding backdoors in non-FOSS software/firmware, of course, but it'd at least be a defensible claim. I'm only really objecting to the notion that this is unique to FOSS.

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