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> Apple has implicitly for a long time, and lately much more vocally, cared about privacy. They say that. But with closed source software we can't verify that
by CaptSpify 11y ago
> Apple has implicitly for a long time, and lately much more vocally, cared about privacy.
They say that. But with closed source software we can't verify that it's true. I'm not saying they don't care about privacy, only that we don't really know if they do or not.
- zimpenfish 11y agoWith open source software, it doesn't appear that people can verify things are safe either given the long-term security issues with things like OpenSSL et al.
- CaptSpify 11y agoI never said they could. There is a better chance that they can, but that line of thinking ends up trying to prove a negative.
- sametmax 11y agoWe found the bug in OpenSSL BECAUSE it was opensource. If it weren't, nobody would have seen it. Plus, with open source you can verify intent, which you can't with apple. Which provide a device getting your finger prints, all your phone numbers, internet search, bank details, some paiements, network communication, voice communications, text communications, localisation using GPS and wifi + hotspot + phone towers and soon ihealth device collection body metrics. And they are profit oriented, not people oriented.
- zimpenfish 11y ago> We found the bug in OpenSSL BECAUSE it was opensource. Sure but they were there for years before anyone noticed. Same with PHP's Mersenne Twister code. Same with multiple other long-standing bugs. It's disingenuous to toss out "Oh, if only it was open source!" because reality tells us that people just plain -don't- read and verify open source code even when it's critical stuff like OpenSSL.