Samsy@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoIt's so nice to see them all growing, but this is just the truth, sorry.lemmy.mlimagemessage-square589fedilinkarrow-up12.1Karrow-down1689
arrow-up11.41Karrow-down1imageIt's so nice to see them all growing, but this is just the truth, sorry.lemmy.mlSamsy@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square589fedilink
minus-squarestarman2112@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoI’m pretty sure I heard a story about an open source Minecraft hack client that was openly stealing discord authentication tokens, and nobody noticed for weeks because the only people who check the source code are people who plan on modifying it
minus-squaretired_n_bored@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoBut it was discovered. What if it was not open source? But in general open source means freedom. Freedom of not being subject to the developer’s choices, freedom to analyze the code etc
I’m pretty sure I heard a story about an open source Minecraft hack client that was openly stealing discord authentication tokens, and nobody noticed for weeks because the only people who check the source code are people who plan on modifying it
But it was discovered. What if it was not open source?
But in general open source means freedom. Freedom of not being subject to the developer’s choices, freedom to analyze the code etc