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I know most consumers don't really care about this stuff until it bites them, but products like this are supposedly (I guess) marketed to consumers who care abo
by bengoodger 11y ago
I know most consumers don't really care about this stuff until it bites them, but products like this are supposedly (I guess) marketed to consumers who care about security. I think it's worth it to be skeptical of claims made by any vendor, and ask some key questions:
- what changes have been made in the fork?
- can I (or people in the software development community) see the source code?
- what peer review policies are applied to changes made in the fork?
- when (not if) something goes wrong, what policies and mechanisms are in place to fix it?
... just to name a few. No software is perfect. No engineer is perfect. There will always be bugs. There should just be an expectation that people will take reasonable precautions.