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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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