turbo_snail

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[–] turbo_snail 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The only real problem I am aware of is breaking some types of public key encryption. Which is kinda bad because post quantum encryption is still in its infancy.

[–] turbo_snail 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you. Will take a look as well.

[–] turbo_snail 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Thanks for pointing me at tide. I always used the pure prompt but tide looks like pure on steroids.

[–] turbo_snail 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you for your answer. I will read the article you linked.

I initially was just very irritated by your comment because it sounded like closed source is more secure in general.

Have a nice evening too.

[–] turbo_snail 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sync is popular because its closed source makes it harder to break the security aspect if you don't have all the access to source code.

Do I understand correctly that you mean, that closed source makes something more secure?

I believe that open source can be more secure because:

  • More people looked at the source code thus more bugs have been discovered.
  • Bad actors will get a hold of your code anyways. Especially mobile apps should be easy to reverse engineer.
  • Intentional backdoors are easier to hide in closed source applications.

There might be more arguments, but I think you get the point.