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Are you confident enough to audit the free software yourself - or pushing the trust back to someone else?
by edf13 4y ago
Are you confident enough to audit the free software yourself - or pushing the trust back to someone else?
- mindslight 4y agoOur modern society couldn't exist without some trust, but there are huge differences in types of trust and the trustee's underlying motivations. Trusting the community to audit is like trusting the scientific method. Anyone can find and point out a flaw, which can then be verified by everyone. That's an idyllic description, and the process is quite imperfect, but it's the best we've got. Meanwhile, trusting a surveillance company to self police is like trusting a quack medicine healer.