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0 pointsmarcosdumay12y ago0 comments

If you have some valuable secret to keep (classified documents, trade secrets, whatever), you'd be stupid if you didn't compile all the software that touch it yourself.

"We" get pre-built packages from repositories, but only because "we" don't value our privacy enough.

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simplyinfinity12y ago

okay you will compile it ... but will you read all of the 10 million (or whatever the number is) lines of code that will compile to your OS and every package that you need to use ?

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0 pointsmarcosdumay12y ago0 comments

If you have some valuable secret to keep (classified documents, trade secrets, whatever), you'd be stupid if you didn't compile all the software that touch it yourself.

"We" get pre-built packages from repositories, but only because "we" don't value our privacy enough.

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simplyinfinity12y ago

okay you will compile it ... but will you read all of the 10 million (or whatever the number is) lines of code that will compile to your OS and every package that you need to use ?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse