Email accounts of 12 lakh Central government employees now run on Zoho's platform", on the migration of 12 lakh e-mail addresses of Union government employees from a National Informatics Centre (NIC)-based system to a platform developed by Zoho. The views expressed by a senior official in the report received a massive backlash from the Indian Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) community, with many taking to social media. Strongly condemning the official's statement, several dignitaries were present and Technology for Education (KITE), said it was a "deeply misinformed and dangerous narrative". KITE is the nodal e-governance agency of Kerala's General Education Department. The comments by the senior official on FOSS are disparaging and troubling. The "Policy on Adoption of Open Source Software for Government of India" of 2014 aims "to ensure strategic control in e-Governance applications and systems from a long-term perspective" and "to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of projects" by adopting FOSS. In other words, "to build a self-reliant ecosystem in technology". Given this, I am unable to comprehend the statement by the senior official that "many government employees were using open source tools, which could compromise security of files". What FOSS tools were the senior official referring to, and how could these tools compromise the security of files? Unfortunately, it is a persistent myth that FOSS is not secure or because the software is "open" but data is also open to the public.