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Re:Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploita... by lrvick on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @02:23PM (#47521239)
Centralized organizations with proprietary software can never offer meaningful end to end encryption because they can just ship an app update to disable or backdoor it at any time.

It is better for them to be forced to turn off the security theater so people that need actual privacy can research alternatives.

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Re:Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploita... by the_mar on Thursday March 26, 2026 @12:14AM (#47526582)
well, name an example of a thing that can never change then.

"research alternatives" meaning what exactly? You think open source is somehow not susceptible to the same issue, plus all of the malicious updates?

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Re:Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploita... by lrvick on Friday March 27, 2026 @04:00AM (#47540064)
Security focused FOSS does signed commits, signed reviews, full source bootstrapping, and reproducible builds.

Proprietary software solutions are unable come close to that level of accountability.

Not all published source code is secure but all secure software has published source code.

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