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> A lock on your own house to which you do not have the master key is not a security system, it is a jail. This is completely bogus. The owner of the master ke
by zvrba 13y ago
> A lock on your own house to which you do not have the master key is not a security system, it is a jail.
This is completely bogus. The owner of the master key may have the access (understandably undesirable), but that does not keep you from getting out. If anything, it's like having no lock at all.
- sb057 13y agoTrue, but their point that "these promises are meaningless" remains valid.
- zvrba 13y agoReplace "Microsoft" with manufacturers of food, cars, medicines, personal hygiene products, etc. They are regulated, inspected, but all under the same / similar conditions: > or access granted to outsiders covering very limited portions of source code under strict agreements that limit sharing that information You are trusting the manufacturer's promises. Are they essentially meaningless just because the general public doesn't have insight into manufacturing details?