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Re:Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, e... by mackal on Monday August 10, 2015 @07:45PM (#10038228)
Free as in freedom, not beer. You can look at the code of the free software, therefore tell if it's phoning home or not. More importantly, changing it.
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Re:Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, e... by morganvachon on Monday August 10, 2015 @08:35PM (#10038418)
Exactly. This is how the Google Chromium always-on voice recognition payload was discovered, for example. We may never have known about it if it wasn't an open source project, or at least we wouldn't have heard about it until long after it shipped.
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Re:Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, e... by anigbrowl on Monday August 10, 2015 @08:22PM (#10038383)
How many people have the time or inclination to validate everything that way?
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Re:Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, e... by dripton on Monday August 10, 2015 @10:01PM (#10038692)
Not many, but the effort is parallelizable. If you find a security problem and report it in public, others can verify it, and still others can benefit from the fix even if they never would have bothered to look for themselves.
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Re:Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, e... by creshal on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @05:05AM (#10039791)
It doesn't take many. The problem is making sure that someone is doing it (cf., OpenSSL).
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