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If you're paranoid, you could read the source of Chromium and confirm it doesn't have a backdoor integrated.

• redleggedfrog 8y ago
  I take your point, but it's really not practical. Any large codebase is nearly impossible to scour for this kind of thing, particularly a web browser which is an immense mound of source. There's so many ways to build in a backdoor, so many ways to build a way for you to later load a back door, that it's not plausible, even for a seasoned developer, to reliably find it. You have to stop such things with source control. The surface area of a new fix or feature is much easier to analyze for vulnerabilities, intentional or not. I do this on a daily basis, and it takes work.
  • karangoeluw 8y ago
    Yeah let's just spread conspiracies because you don't want to put in the time to prove them.
  • modzu 8y ago
    well if you don't trust chromium, as a consequence you cannot trust any apps built on electron (slack, github desktop, etc) and you can't trust a single thing on android. that's pretty steep.
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