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Re:Web-based cryptography is always snake oil by memoriyato3 on Sunday July 05, 2026 @05:27AM (#48792632)
technically you could audit your local copy of tor source code, build it, and then never upgrade it.

still this wouldn't guarantee that all the other nodes are not compromised

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Re:Web-based cryptography is always snake oil by bloppe on Sunday July 05, 2026 @04:43PM (#48797765)
You could also audit the JavaScript / Wasm that's running in your browser. In fact, a security-focused e2e application might want to purposely keep all client-side code un-minified and highly readable for this very purpose, but decompilers and LLMs could provide reasonable auditability regardless
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