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[โ€“] Mac@mander.xyz 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days 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.