I recently learned that my company prefers closed-source tools for privacy and security.
I don’t know whether the person who said that was just confused, but I am trying to come up with reasons to opt to closed-source for privacy.
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There is some logic here, having a business relationship with a party that now has a contractual duty to you, is a stronger guarantee than an open source project.
For instance Windows is source available, to many businesses, so in one sense it’s open source, and the other sense is closed source. From a business perspective that’s a reasonable trade-off sometimes
Tin-foil hat on. So, with CCP/GSP, secret agencies are free to find backdoors on the system.
I didn’t know about those programs. I thought the Windows source code is kept secret from everyone.
Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyvwacFNPxc
We are banned from fixing backdoors. Conspiracy? Derailment strategy.