this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2025
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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

First listed: Beeper at beeper.com - closed source ๐Ÿค”

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

How can we be sure a program respects privacy if it's closed source? Anyone can put any kind of malicious code in a closed source program and nobody would ever know.