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With regards to your link, that's very well-written and I agree with almost everything you said in that link. This is particularly important to remember: "The
by kerkeslager 7y ago
With regards to your link, that's very well-written and I agree with almost everything you said in that link. This is particularly important to remember:
"The unfortunate consequence is that software vendors — including browser vendors — must not be blindly trusted. Not because such vendors don’t want to protect user privacy. Rather, because a law might force vendors to secretly violate their own principles and do things they don’t want to do."
And that doesn't just apply to the NSA forcing you to backdoor your own software under threat of arrest. It also applies to major sources of funding forcing you to backdoor your own software under threat of defunding you.
I want a browser made by people who would shut down their business rather than compromise users. And so far in this conversation, it doesn't even sound like you've considered that possibility or believe it could happen, so how can we trust that you'd do that?
- BrendanEich 7y agoI would shut down Brave rather than backdoor our open source. Can you imagine? Note: I'd do this on moral grounds, but even if I were some kind of toady to the state, I'm not stupid. The back door would be discovered and I'd be strictly worse off then. It wouldn't pay for the state actor, either.