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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

First listed: Beeper at beeper.com - closed source ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

How can we be sure a program respects privacy if it's closed source? Anyone can put any kind of malicious code in a closed source program and nobody would ever know.