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Re:Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.? by fortran77 on Saturday September 28, 2019 @04:29PM (#21102676)
IRC clients are largely open source. How do we know they haven't been backdoored?
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Re:Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.? by lozaning on Saturday September 28, 2019 @05:09PM (#21102887)
I think you answered the second part of your post with the first didnt you? Get the source and compile it yourself.
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Re:Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.? by fortran77 on Saturday September 28, 2019 @11:52PM (#21104947)
There have been backdoors in Open Source code. I have only read a tiny insignificant fraction of the Open Source code I run.
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