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Re:Windows is the malware compatibility layer for everything by donkeybeer on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @01:19PM (#36698103)
If the alternative is not even sources but just a black box binary, then its at least better to be able to inspect the sources.
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Re:Windows is the malware compatibility layer for everything by ryanisnan on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @03:21PM (#36700292)
I agree. But I think we shouldn't equate the fact that we-have-the-technical ability-to-do-this with we-have-the-bandwidth-and-the-skills-required-to-do-this.
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Re:Windows is the malware compatibility layer for everything by donkeybeer on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @04:50PM (#36701482)
The discussion was a comparison against the security culture in Windows. Source availability is a sort of bare minimum at least, obviously by itself thats not enough one wants the source to have been crosschecked by lots of eyes.

My personal opinion regarding security I would say is easy ability to apply sandboxing at various levels on the user side for software we trust less. (By user side I mean not depending on the developer to package the app a certain way etc. A virtual machine or a chroot jail etc are examples of what I meant by this).

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