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Re:Germany bans children's smartwatches by madez on Friday November 17, 2017 @07:19PM (#15727047)
The source being open puts huge pressure on the developer not to put in backdoors.

Overmore, your claim

> Nobody outside a tiny minority of geeks treats free software as a selling point.

is wrong. Just to give one counterexample, the European Comission is not a bunch of geeks and they strongly prefer free software.

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Re:Germany bans children's smartwatches by Karunamon on Friday November 17, 2017 @09:28PM (#15727458)
We're not talking about backdoors. We're talking about stuff that's exposed up front before the user can even install the program.

The EC is a statistical anomaly. One agency out of how many out there?

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