Is there some kind of idiot award for posts going on on Free Republic that I am unaware of?
Having immediate access to source does make hacking easier. Or if you're claiming it doesn't, we can certainly get you one of the idiot awards.
And you just won the blue-ribbon idiot award.
I see you're living up to your screen name. Of course having source code makes it easier to crack, no intelligent person would ever say otherwise. What the OSS fans say is it also makes it easier for the white-hats to patch the holes before the black-hats get to them because they have more eyes on the code than a closed source vendor would typically have (assuming the OSS code is popular enough).
So what we have here is a popular OSS product that is bug-ridden. Good thing it doesn't have a very large install base or the black hats would be exploiting it like worse than Win9x.