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Comment by Gang Wang

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Computer security professor at UIUC
Open source is powerful because everybody can help. [...] If everything's behind closed doors, nobody can understand how it works.
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AI Verified The official Grainger College interview page “Q&A: Challenging assumptions makes great computer security,” dated 2023-10-19, contains the quoted opening sentence and closing sentence in Gang Wang’s answer, with only one intervening sentence omitted by [...]. The passage is therefore authentic, attributed to Gang Wang in context, and the stored author, date, and source URL are correct. ([grainger.illinois.edu](https://grainger.illinois.edu/news/stories/59467)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
Disputed The October 19, 2023 Grainger Illinois interview does attribute this idea to Gang Wang, but the source places another sentence between "Open source is powerful because everybody can help" and "If everything's behind closed doors, nobody can understand how it works." Because the submitted version omits that middle sentence without [...], it is not verbatim as given. ([grainger.illinois.edu](https://grainger.illinois.edu/news/stories/59467)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Unverifiable Cannot positively verify exact wording. The Illinois Grainger URL returns 403 to WebFetch, and the exact quoted phrasing ('Open source is powerful because everybody can help. If everything's behind closed doors, nobody can understand how it works.') does not surface in independent searches. The article does exist at the source_url (Q&A: 'Challenging assumptions makes great computer security' featuring Gang Wang, UIUC computer security professor), and search results confirm Wang's pro-open-source stance with a slightly different quote ('I'm very much in favor of open source. The protocol should be open for everybody to challenge the design...'). Author attribution is correct and the 'against' vote on 'Open-source AI is more dangerous than closed-source AI' aligns with Wang's documented pro-open-source views. But I cannot confirm the exact direct-quote text without access to the source. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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