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What US based open source software should one reconsider after Jan. 20? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/cybersecurity

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I'm thinking that software like Signal, Bitwarden, Firefox and RHEL is more likely to be pushed (by unconventional methods) to introduce backdoors under Trump 2.0. Less complex software that is developed by an international community is of course less suseptible.

What do you think? Will the risk be higher during Trump 2.0 or is the FOSS community diverse and international enough? Am I just paranoid and irrational?

Closed source software and cloud is of course a no brainer since always. But clompex FOSS with centralized development and hosting pretty much suffers from the same problem.

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[–] theonlytruescotsman 11 points 14 hours ago

The old adage isn't just for show; if you're up against a state actor, or believe you need to secure yourself against a state actor, you're fucked.

That being said if you're not already secured against the 5/13 eyes and you think Trump makes a difference you're too naive to ever be targeted and nothing you do matters to them.

Trump makes no difference in terms of the US government attempting to breach privacy. Every anti privacy measure the US has ever pushed has been bipartisan, including the patriot act which was written by Joe Biden. You're not paranoid enough or far too paranoid.