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Re:New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy by hengheng on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @05:38AM (#23699646)
Still a reputation to lose, generally speaking.

I have also never seen anybody who made this argument verify their free software by looking at sources before compiling.

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Re:New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy by cpach on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @05:52AM (#23699721)
Exactly. Even if I would use only 100% FOSS software, I would not have the time to read all the source code of the whole stack, from the device drivers to the kernel and up to the source code of the web browser, etc etc.
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