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Why do they deserve any trust when they're phoning home?
by ok123456 4y ago
Why do they deserve any trust when they're phoning home?
- scarface74 4y agoThe person you are replying to is saying that at some level you have to trust someone and “open source” is not the answer. There have been plenty of latent bugs in Linux that took years to discover that could have led to information extraction
- ok123456 4y ago"Every platform has RVEs eventually" is a pretty lazy answer. The answer is to stop normalizing telemetry and data exfiltration even if it's 'the good guys' doing it. It's not your "cloud" therefore it's not your data.
- scarface74 4y agoSo if you are not going to trust anyone are you going to stop using computers?
- ok123456 4y agoNo. Just don't use "cloud" "services" like this or LassPass.
- djur 4y agoNo, that's not what I'm saying. I think it's conceivable that with a great deal of effort you could build an open source system that is highly trustworthy. What I'm saying is that the gradient between "highly trustworthy" and "untrustworthy" is extremely steep. To use another analogy, someone using a firewall to keep a MacBook from phoning home is like a person who invests in a really high-quality lock on their jewelry box to keep their housecleaner from stealing from them.
- scarface74 4y agoHow much “effort” do you think it would take to build a system that is completely open source down to the firmware?
- djur 4y agoWhy do you have any less trust for what they're doing with your data on their servers versus what they can already do with it on yours? If you don't trust them to have access to your data, you should not use their hardware and you should not use their software.