what would the warning say?
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Julie_Pilgrim
KleinesSinchen
What happened?
zoogie
There's no one example. It's just something that crosses my mind every time I see a sourceless executable distributed here lately.
User assurance of safety is important, especially as IT security has become an increasingly concerning issue in recent times.
User assurance of safety is important, especially as IT security has become an increasingly concerning issue in recent times.
KleinesSinchen
Big problem. A homebrew dev might have legit reasons for not releasing source – equally legit are the users' reasons for wanting the source before trusting.
I might take the risk of bricking a console forever (because of closed source software turning out to be destructive malware) and will volunteer if a test is needed.
I might take the risk of bricking a console forever (because of closed source software turning out to be destructive malware) and will volunteer if a test is needed.
KleinesSinchen
Still people use Windows, iOS, Android phones with locked bootloaders and unavailable kernel/driver sources… everyday for their personal life and for business. The implications of banks relying on people accepting "Google Terms of Use" and demanding the usage of software that cannot be revised independently for security reasons hits me much harder. I simply refuse to trust such devices.
KleinesSinchen
To be fair I'm unable/never built an OS from source and surely aren't remotely able to verify e.g. the kernel source of "5.3.18-150300.59.49-preempt #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Feb 7 14:40:20 UTC 2022 (77d9d02) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux" running on the machine I'm typing on. Same for the "Firefox 91.5.0esr (64-bit)" which has GBAtemp open right now. And "KDE plasmashell 5.18.6". And all the other packages.
zoogie
"Big problem. A homebrew dev might have legit..."
I mean, yeah, I can understand a dev may have a good reason to go closed, and that's why I'm not advocating anything near a full ban, just a plainly visible warning to educate the user that's there's increased risk when the dev won't disclose source.
I mean, yeah, I can understand a dev may have a good reason to go closed, and that's why I'm not advocating anything near a full ban, just a plainly visible warning to educate the user that's there's increased risk when the dev won't disclose source.
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Psionic Roshambo:
I wonder if they could get CPUs to run that hot then use the heat to power a steam turbine to power the CPUs.... -
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Psionic Roshambo:
It's not the movies or games downloads that I would worry about, like breaking into networks, downloading encrypted things, spying on network traffic. I have seen so many "Top Secret" seals on files when I was a kid
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Psionic Roshambo:
I was obsessed with finding UFOs, a surprising amount of US files where stashed on computers in other countries, China back in the early 90s omg sooo much
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BigOnYa:
Yea that crazy, I've never tried hack into anything, I just pirate, and my ISP have send me 3-4 letters, so had to VPN it -
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Psionic Roshambo:
Ship to ship communication software for the Navy although without access to the encrypting chips it was mostly useless
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Psionic Roshambo:
I bet now a 4090 could probably crack it? Hmmm maybe not even back then I'm pretty sure they where using like 1024 bit encryption
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Psionic Roshambo:
I remember one time I downloaded like a 500MB ISO file on 56K and that literally took like 2 days
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