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by acdha 614 days ago
There’s no way for someone on the internet to reach into your Transmit app and make it do something.
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How can you be so sure? Even after reading all the source code, there still can be bugs, attacks, demanding letters from different agencies, misconfigurations, vulnerabilities in code and in libraries, etc. etc. etc.
If your threat model is the NSA leaning on a developer to ship a compromised build, KPMG is not going to catch that. If it’s that you’re going to use Transmit to connect to a server which is compromised and exploits your client to exfiltrate your Drive files, guess what else they’re not going to prevent?

It’d be one thing if Project Zero was running serious audits but this policy is designed to let them check audit checkboxes so when you lose data, it’s hard to sue Google.

All of which would also impact the Google Drive client installed on the same machine. None of Google's requirements seek to address this.