• mtchristo@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    You are telling me this has been going on for almost a decade now, and no one ever noticed ?

    So we trust open source apps under the premise that if malicious code gets added to the code, at least one person will notice ? Here it shows that years pass before anyone notices and millions of people’s communications could have been compromised by the world’s most trusted messaging app.

    I don’t know which app to trust after this, if any?

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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      6 months ago

      Why is this a shock? Someone would need to have already compromised your device. Even if it was encrypted with a password they still could install a key logger

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        6 months ago

        It is easier to compromise a device than to try and compromise encrypted communications.

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      6 months ago

      Matrix. You can host any version you want, and when you have to update, just do a version diff between you current and latest versions and check yourself.