Quintus
@quintus
Open source software doesn’t exist By open source I mean you know for sure what the software is doing when you execute it Pretty much all software today is executed on a foundation of closed source firmware and hardware designs Even if you have an open application running on an open operating system using only open source libraries that still gets executed by some opaque low level software on hardware which no one checks actually executes the logic its supposed to
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Will Papper
@will
Reflections on Trusting Trust is my favorite writing on this: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf
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