minus-squareedent@lemmy.onetoPrivacy Guides@lemmy.one•Open source is no guarantee for security or privacy. It is a prerequisit.linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 years agoI think the phrase you’re looking “necessary but not sufficient”. Proprietary code could contain something which is bad for privacy or security - but you’d never be able to tell. Hence OSS is a necessity. Open Source code can still track you, sell your data, be insecure etc. So openness is not sufficient. linkfedilink
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I think the phrase you’re looking “necessary but not sufficient”.
Proprietary code could contain something which is bad for privacy or security - but you’d never be able to tell. Hence OSS is a necessity.
Open Source code can still track you, sell your data, be insecure etc. So openness is not sufficient.