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Professional cow, Linux Nerd, Hardcore Techno enthusiast. The Emporer protects us.

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  • Its relatively easy. First of all if someone would implement a backdoor its much easier to find out, since you can look at the code directly. Second is, that a lot of people actually do this. Looking at the code of projects and searching for ways to find security holes in it.

    So even if it isn’t that much more secure than closed source, its much easier to trust simply because people can search for vulnerabilities much easier.

    One great example of why open source code is easier to realise backdoors would be the xz Security breach.














  • While I agree with you, the problem is, that it opens the door for a lot of other forms of eugenics. Once we decided that Meth users shouldn’t have kids we can quickly expand the definition of who is “allowed to have kids”. People who take LSD? Those psychopaths. Stoners? Homeless people? Black people?

    It gives a certain group of people power over one of the most intimate secsectors of someone’s private life. No one can guarantee, that at some point we are not the ones being included in the definition of “unfit for parenting” simply because we have the wrong political views or something like that.