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The right thing for the wrong reasons: FLOSS doesn't imply security (seirdy.one)
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I find people who agree with me for the wrong reasons to be more problematic than people who simply disagree with me. After writing a lot about why free software is important, I needed to clarify that there are good and bad reasons for supporting it.

You can audit the security of proprietary software quite thoroughly; source code isn't a necessary or sufficient precondition for a particular software implementation to be considered secure.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This serves as a springboard and a fallacy by omission that closed source is just as workable and trustable. I noticed this with r/PrivacyGuides and GrapheneOS Matrix room moderator Tommy_Tran/B0risGrishenko in this bullshit announcement post and comments regarding Rule 1 (no closed source software):

https://teddit.net/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/siqc69/consideration_on_removing_rule_1/ (Archive: https://archive.is/Jxpmb)

The famous Underhanded C Contest tells us why closed source software is always an inferior proposition.