On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 17:53:13 -0300 riveravaldez <riveravaldezm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/18/21, Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote: ... > > (...) The bottom line: no, I don't "know" that WhatsApp is secure, but > > neither do I "know" that anything I run is. (...) > > To put it simply, I can't accept the idea that in terms of security or privacy > "community driven open-source and corporation-profit driven closed-source > software are perfectly comparable or even the same". I think such an > implication is blatantly false, and to deal with it is to shore crazyland... I certainly agree that they aren't "perfectly comparable or even the same," and I certainly do trust open source software considerably more. I was just objecting to absolutist claims that non-open source software is completely untrustworthy - claims such as yours that trusting Facebook is "the opposite of reason, science or self-verified-security." Celejar
