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by eingaeKaiy8ujie 1788 days ago
Opera is closed source which means it is not secure.
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So Apple iOS, Microsoft Windows, Amazon FireOS, Cisco IOS, Netapp ONTAP... they are all "not secure" because they are not OSS?
Potentially not secure and definitely not private, for most of them.
Potentially not secure is not the same as definitely not secure. OSS is also potentially not secure. I don't understand these comments. They seem like they were written by semi-literate adolescents.
I agree that being open source is not a guarantee of security or privacy. But there's a social contract which comes with it and the transparency that together make the projects more likely to at least be motivated towards those goals.

> They seem like they were written by semi-literate adolescents.

That's unnecessary.

Yes.