1. What about NSA and  some of their efforts revealed via Snowden&#x27;s leaks? No one knew for years and many companies were prevented from releasing information via the secret gag orders.<p>2. FBI refuses to reveal their methods of breaking into the iPhone.<p>3. What about the Lavasoft case?<p>4. The secret FISA courts and the Patriot Act?<p>USA is just smarter at hiding and concealing this stuff.<p>As for your #3, the recent Allwinner backdoor reveal does show that sometime it takes a while before someone finds the backdoor and open source doesn&#x27;t prevent it.