@return2ozma to TechnologyEnglish • 7 months agoIn case you missed it: Bank info-stealing malware found in 90+ Android apps with 5.5M installsmashable.comexternal-linkmessage-square106arrow-up1460arrow-down153
arrow-up1407arrow-down1external-linkIn case you missed it: Bank info-stealing malware found in 90+ Android apps with 5.5M installsmashable.com@return2ozma to TechnologyEnglish • 7 months agomessage-square106
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-4•7 months agoOkay, but that’s a different claim than that you have to personally vet and compile every single thing you use, which is what I was responding to. Open source isn’t perfect, but it is objectively and obviously better than closed.
minus-squareJeenalinkfedilinkEnglish2•7 months agoMy whole point is that you can not point to a 3rd party checking for you and claim that it secure because someone else already checked. And I brought two examples which contradict this claim.
Okay, but that’s a different claim than that you have to personally vet and compile every single thing you use, which is what I was responding to.
Open source isn’t perfect, but it is objectively and obviously better than closed.
My whole point is that you can not point to a 3rd party checking for you and claim that it secure because someone else already checked. And I brought two examples which contradict this claim.