He’s taking a fee in order to launder your money.

He can write the code. He can release the source. Nothing is illegal until he takes currency.

I don’t think you understand. Banks (or anyone who accepts large amounts of money) has a duty to have some idea of where that money comes from. There are anti money laundering laws.

Go open a bank account right now and try to deposit a briefcase full of $50,000 in cash and see what happens. You might, maybe be able to do it, but there will absolutely be questions.

This happens with cash too. If you take in a bunch of cash, you have a duty to know what it’s from so that you’re not facilitating terrorism or crime or subverting sanctions. In fact, of you handle cash or finance, you generally have to take training on these laws every year.

This thing is the definition of money laundering and was known for exactly those problems.

I should repeatedly talk about putting unions into SQL queries.

Are you trapped in the wilderness? If you’ve been abducted by hyenas, hoot like an owl twice.

This isn’t really different from most software on your system. I can exfiltrate plenty of your data on Windows without root. And are you reviewing the source code of every application you run?

It’s a problem when Riot does it, but not Nvidia?

If you don’t have a local copy you’re likely to lose it.

There’s really no reason to cache anything more than a day old. And if you’re using Android Auto, the car shouldn’t need to store anything. It all goes through your phone.

I expect to have access to all of my data that the system retains. I expect them to not share my text messages with anyone else. I expect to have the ability to manually delete data.

I prefer that it doesn’t retain information any longer than I have use for it.

That’s not asking much.

And they all do that anyway. Information generally isn’t revealed to the client unless it needs to be.

So the first thing you give any sketchy WiFi is your home address?