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Yeah, I love open source alternatives from an autocratic state with backdoors and all kind of nasty stuff inside, and no oversight or ability to sue, as well as
by gremlinsinc 5y ago
Yeah, I love open source alternatives from an autocratic state with backdoors and all kind of nasty stuff inside, and no oversight or ability to sue, as well as possibility of sanctions by association.
- uspec2 5y ago
- onemoresoop 5y agoAt least you still have a public outcry when backdoors are found out. Though whistleblowers tend to have a bad fate regardless of the side they're on I think they will at least not be point blank executed like the journalists executed on Putin's birthday. The west is heading in a bad direction too, no doubt about that, but Russia and China are already at an extremely dangerous level of totalitarianism and censorship.
- CamperBob2 5y agoIf submitting a bug report against Dual_EC_DRBG got you exiled to a gulag, your false-equivalence exercise might have some validity.
- tsol 5y agoEven in Russia, submitting a bug report won't get you sent to Siberia. America's goals align more closely with the majority of readers here than Russia's goals do, but ultimately neither situation is ideal considering the lack of privacy inherit in this goals
- UberFly 5y agoWouldn't the fact that it's open source make the spiders in the code easy to see?
- jjice 5y agoThey'd be visible, if it was noticed. Bugs get introduced to OSS all the time just because sometimes it's hard to review code 100% accurately. Replace bugs with truly malicious code and the same applies. If you told me I use OSS on a daily basis that has some sort of malicious code that slipped though the cracks, I'd believe it just due to the shear amount of code running on any machine.
- post-it 5y agoOnly if someone looks at the code.