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WTF??? Guys, wake up! If it is not open source, it does not protect your privacy. Period. We see how other companies got coerced into breaking privacy for some
by hngiszmo 13y ago
WTF??? Guys, wake up! If it is not open source, it does not protect your privacy. Period. We see how other companies got coerced into breaking privacy for some dollars. The company-driven closed source development is flawed as long as we grant governments this power.
What we need is not yet another startup that tries to make money on our private data (yeah, read Epic's FAQ how they make money). We need a stack of hardware and software you can easily trust. My dream is to use a computer that is produced on an open design by one of hundreds of fabs that would call out a competitor that puts backdoors into the chips to boost their own reputation. My dream is a software stack that is completely signed by tons of trustful developers with the possibility to easily add my signature after bit-reproducibly compiling code I checked. If this comes true, people will identify easier the packages that were developed by companies only and find ways to replace them for a trustworthy stack.
Open source apps distributed via Android market for example are closed source apps compiled by the developer from code he maybe shared and that was possibly modified by google running on video-audio-multi-sensor-bugs with several agencies having a direct wire to them. If you still use windows, your PC is not better than that. Think about it. Thanks to Snowden we can finally talk about these issues without a single person calling us paranoid.
- metastart 13y agoEpic is open source...anyone who wants our source code, just write us!! Sorry we've been struggling to get the product ready and hadn't prepared to release all the code yet but will do it fast. Chromium is a huge code base & we're a small team so we hadn't gotten to it yet. We don't make any money from anyone's private data or any data (period). We make revenues at this point exclusively from searches you do via our private search engine & always protect your searches' privacy. Thanks for other ideas...others can comment...
- Sir_Cmpwn 13y agoGitHub. Just make a GitHub repo.
- sergiotapia 13y agoJust plop whatever you have in it's current state on Github. _Any_ code is better than no code. No one will use this unless it's open sourced.