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Just to pile on to all of the other fallacies and falsehoods in the article > This conspiracy theory goes something like this: If you can’t examine the source
by shmageggy 6y ago
Just to pile on to all of the other fallacies and falsehoods in the article
> This conspiracy theory goes something like this: If you can’t examine the source code, then some bad actor might provide you some executable software that has evil baked in, and you wouldn’t be able to tell
How is this a conspiracy theory? We literally see it happening in the news all the time. See Solarwinds, NSA backdoors, etc. And on the flip side catching the insertion of malware into the the Great Suspender Chrome extension. These are just the first things that come to mind in 2 seconds.
- herf 6y agoYou can quite easily inspect the Great Suspender code (since it's just code in a folder), but it's not like Chrome gives you a diff when it updates. For months, nobody noticed, and there are still a lot more people who didn't notice.