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Re:What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works by benevol on Saturday March 11, 2017 @05:52AM (#13845054)
> this claim is rather meaningless when we don't have the possibility of auditing their source code

Open source is required not just for apps, but also for:

- operating systems

- drivers

- firmware

Then we can start to talk about privacy.

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Re:What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works by imaginenore on Saturday March 11, 2017 @06:50AM (#13845158)
You forgot

- hardware

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Re:What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works by astrange on Saturday March 11, 2017 @01:33PM (#13846508)
Have you tried learning assembly? It's not hard or anything.
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