Re:WhatsApp Rolls Out End-To-End Encryption to Its Over 1B U...
by vulpino on Friday April 08, 2016 @08:19AM
(#11454068)
And heartbleed is also than example of open source not being totally secure. It was a bug that persisted for years before it was found - and OpenSSL is open source.
It's just as foolish to blindly trust OSS. There will always be holes - the main point to OSS is not to combat these, as they will exist regardless. Rather, it is so one might know exactly what they're installing/using, without having to trust the corporation behind it.
Re:WhatsApp Rolls Out End-To-End Encryption to Its Over 1B U...
by sickbeard on Friday April 08, 2016 @09:23AM
(#11454444)
no it's foolish to trust something that hasn't been independently reviewed. How can EFF recommend something that hasn't even been subjected to an independent security audit?
It's just as foolish to blindly trust OSS. There will always be holes - the main point to OSS is not to combat these, as they will exist regardless. Rather, it is so one might know exactly what they're installing/using, without having to trust the corporation behind it.