Re: [Trisquel-users] Julian Assange: Debian Is Owned By The NSA

[jonah]

RMS has mentioned this before in some of his talks. Free software is not a  
perfect solution from a privacy standpoint since the entire GNU/Linux system  
is so complex as it still requires eyes on all packages all the time which is  
hard. It requires some level of trust somewhere in compiled packages, but it  
sure beats non-free software. It really is the best anyone can do.

At the end of the day you could compile the entire system yourself, but it's  
still impossible for you alone to know what is in the public source since  
you're just one person. Therefore we have to trust that somebody, somewhere,  
in some project, if they find a bug, or security hole, etc that they tell  
someone and fix it so that you can them know. Again it's not perfect, but  
what else can you do?