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Not discrediting Open Source Software, but nothing is 100% safe.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Good security is a component to privacy. But you can have good security with no privacy - that is the whole idea of a surveillance state (which IMO is a horrifying concept). Both are worth having, but my previous responses were only about the security aspect of OSS. There are many other good arguments to have about the benefits of OSS, but increased security is not a valid one.