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by Sir_Cmpwn 3155 days ago
I don't think that you've fully appreciated the rebuttals to your position. Consider this: you audit your build toolchain and thereafter trust it not to manipulate your binaries. With this axiom in place, is it not true that it's easier to audit open source software (assuming it's built on a trusted toolchain) than proprietary software?
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I don’t think you’ve understood the original premise. Suggesting that closed source software isn’t auditable Is laughable. No one who does software audits for a living supports that premise.
>Suggesting that closed source software isn’t auditable Is laughable

I never said that. Come on, dude.

I think I see the confusion. The post they first replied to said that, quite specifically. You were not that poster, however.