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> Why do you feel that there's no way to verify closed-source software? Isn't that the very definition of security through obscurity?
by yarou 10y ago
> Why do you feel that there's no way to verify closed-source software?
Isn't that the very definition of security through obscurity?
- pvg 10y agoNo. The security of WhatsApp is not dependent on it being closed source.
- yarou 10y agoI'm not trying to be rude, but I think if you cannot see how closed-source software uses the model of security through obscurity, you may have a cognitive deficit of some kind. Again, I'm not trying to talk shit or be rude.
- wglb 10y agoRegardless how the comment tries to work around it, cognitive deficit is in fact rude.
- yarou 10y agoYou didn't even bother to respond to the content of my post, rather you're more concerned with some weird sense of decorum. We all have cognitive deficits, but it is not necessarily rude to point out when one's mental faculties are failing.
- pvg 10y agoWell, I don't know if they're cognitive ones but you seem to have some deficits in 'knowing how to engage people on forums' and 'knowing what security by obscurity means'. The content of your post is that isn't rude is just inaccurate.
- wglb 10y agoThe sense of decorum we all ought to have in participating in HN is called out in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. As an example, Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.