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Re:Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for en... by kd3 on Friday October 04, 2019 @09:24AM (#21157383)
Open source doesn't guarantee that the compiled source running on your device is the same as what you can view on, for example, GitHub. That is also a trust problem.
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Re:Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for en... by sjy on Friday October 04, 2019 @11:27AM (#21158588)
It is much easier to trust that `apt-get install pidgin` will run the published Pidgin source code, than it is to trust that Messenger or WhatsApp will only do the (undocumented) things that I expect them to do.
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