Re: Privacy Concerns with UbuntuPhone

Thomi Richards schreef op di 22-04-2014 om 17:48 [+1200]:
> Welllllll..... I'm still not convinced that a totally open source
> software stack would give us any more real security or privacy than we
> already have, for two main reasons.

It can't hurt, and it may help. At the least, it can aid in preventing
the sort of abuses that closed source software can have:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/04/easter-egg-dsl-router-patch-merely-hides-backdoor-instead-of-closing-it/

I would argue that it is able to provide _better_ security for me as an
end user, while being aware that virtually nothing is perfect.

Robin.

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