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Sometimes, yes, but not intrinsically. AOSP performs OS and app update authenticity verification via predistributed public keys, as do package managers. In theo
by dvzk 4y ago
Sometimes, yes, but not intrinsically. AOSP performs OS and app update authenticity verification via predistributed public keys, as do package managers. In theory, a phone’s firmware can be completely open source and still be unmodifiable. Proprietary software isn’t any more opaque or protected than open source software.
- m463 4y ago> Proprietary software isn’t any more opaque or protected than open source software. lol. Look, in practical terms - as well as by definition - proprietary software is owned by someone else.
- dvzk 4y agoSorry. I meant to write that closed source software isn’t opaque, technologically. (More opaque, yes, opaque... no.) Legally, it’s different. But closed source compilation alone doesn’t grant a program special privileges or confidentiality or non-reversibility, which is sometimes assumed. It’s just machine code or bytecode either way.