Re:Show HN: CLI tool for saving web pages as a single file
by yters on Saturday August 24, 2019 @01:12PM
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Nothing is safe from government pressure. But, at least with local closed source we know it's going to just be our government pressure. Otherwise, it could be any actor, which may be less friendly towards us.
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Re:Show HN: CLI tool for saving web pages as a single file
by MaxBarraclough on Sunday August 25, 2019 @08:58AM
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> with local closed source we know it's going to just be our government pressure
We don't. Companies that produce proprietary code are not immune from attacks on their repository, and are more vulnerable to, say, bribery. They're also more vulnerable to attacks on their distributed binaries - users do not have the option to compile from source, so you compromise every user this way.
Proprietary software is also far more likely to embed 'telemetry' spying, or to use sloppy security practices and rely on security-by-obscurity. Authors of Free and Open Source software know that they (generally at least [0]) cannot get away with this kind of thing.
It simply isn't true that proprietary software is more trustworthy than FOSS. If anything, the opposite appears to be true.