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booleaninstall random third party software that may be sniffing or leaking information to remove shady features from windows that sniff and leak information.
windows sucks.
killeronthecornerThe app is open source so you can review the not-leaking-your-information that it does yourself.
Windows on the other hand …
KecessaI wonder how many apps this actually happens for, my guess is “way less than people think”
That they leak information? I work in commercial software development and I have to do a lot of open source security reviews. The answer is: virtually none.
Private, closed-source software on the other hand… If it could sniff your farts and send the smell to advertisers, it would; in almost all cases.
No, that people actually take the time to check the source code before installing them
I’ve seen enough crypto scams to know that even when the code is public, people don’t bother… Heck, there are scanning tools for crypto that tell you how risky the shitcoins are and people still get scammed out of thousands of dollars!
As a software user, you can either care about your privacy or not. Caring about your privacy and not either vetting what you’re planning to use or checking that someone else has before using it, is akin to sticking your hand in a fire to find out if it’s hot.
Taking that analogy further, malicious open source software is kind of like a burning building. It only takes one person to raise the flag for it to spread pretty quickly through social media or other means. The whole community doesn’t need to acknowledge the fire for something to be done about it.