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esteth
on Oct 22, 2013
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Google announces uProxy
Because it appears to be open source and peer to peer, so you don't need to trust Google at all?
nwh
on Oct 22, 2013
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Open source does not mean secure. Half the time nobody even reads the source, let alone compares the binaries to the repository.
esteth
on Oct 22, 2013
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It's a chrome extension, so the source you see is the code executed by your browser.
nwh
on Oct 22, 2013
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That wasn't my point. Have you ever read the source of the extensions you have installed? No. If everybody has that mentality then nothing gets "checked" and malicious code makes it though.
rryan
on Oct 22, 2013
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I have read the source of extensions I've installed.
Dylan16807
on Oct 23, 2013
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And are you a crypto expert?
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