On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 12:36:14PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Tuesday 02 June 2009 10:59:51 am Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > I would add - with Open Source add it's far smaller (actually close to > > zero) probability that it doesn't do anything except it's supposed to do. > > > > I mean things like sending private data to someone else, scanning for > > other programs i have on disk, my addressbook etc. > > I agree completely. I'd never voluntarily trust my personal information to a > system that I (or other interested parties on my behalf) couldn't audit.
I agree as well:
Why encryption that doesn't trust the user isn't trustworthy
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=362
The article is particular to encryption, of course, but the same
priniciples are easily generalized to other software types.
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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
Quoth Edward Murphy, Jr. (Murphy's Law): "If there's more than one way
to do a job and one of those ways will end in disaster, then someone
will do it that way."
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