Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Shock9889 742 days ago
I like the audacity to suggest "downloading" a random closed-sourced 166MB .run script that will scan my system and send data to KGB
1 comments

But can I interest you in an OS that will send your data to NSA instead?
With Kaspersky you have the guarantee it won’t be sent to NSA since it is Russian.
Actually you can't guarantee even that given the profitable black market for user data in Russia (it's easy to sell and buy leaked or stolen data there)
I like to mix and match my providers so everyone can have a good peek.
Since we are talking about Linux.

I assume you have a link to the source code where this is happening.

Not everything in Linux have a source code available for users. And you may want to use i.e. Chrome, or some games, or some drivers by i.e. NVidia. And that without counting BIOS or whatever deep down computers use, most of what you could use as social network/mail solution, and not found yet trojans like what happened with xz in some basic tool.

Having the source is a good start, but having a "lawful" powerful active player that actively want to intrude should be part of the equation. It was a formidable threat a decade ago, nothing was done about that, and now is even more advanced than what was then.

Are we still talking about the OS?