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In a way this is actually the only "solution" to ensure privacy. A lot of ensuring privacy is knowing down to a very precise detail exactly what data is sent w
by lotu 8y ago
In a way this is actually the only "solution" to ensure privacy. A lot of ensuring privacy is knowing down to a very precise detail exactly what data is sent where and what happens to it. The only way to know this realistically is if you wrote the darn thing yourself. Otherwise you have to trust someone that the thing does what it says it does.
We as a society haven't agreed precisely on what "privacy" means so it is effectively impossible to know is a particular service's handling of data provided to meats you definition unless you just don't hand it the data in the first place.
- cortesoft 8y ago> Otherwise you have to trust someone that the thing does what it says it does. I mean, this is always going to be the case with modern computers. No one writes EVERYTHING themselves, so they have to trust someone else. You are trusting the microcode on the CPU, the system calls on your OS, your compiler/interpreter, your standard library.... I get that this is a different sort/level of trust than trusting a third party metrics system, but it isn't fundamentally different. It is all about trusting someone else's work.
- pard68 8y agoAs an exercise, I have been building my own computer from scratch. Started as an adder made in transistors. Became a simple three instruction nand cpu (add, sub, jump). Currently building a very minimalistic copy of a 6502 out of ttl. Goal is to create a machine capable of hosting a website with my dev log and schematics for its own creation. I will have developed every piece of software running on it.
- sdenton4 8y agoLet a thousand implementations bloom, each with its own security bugs!