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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Check the binary for current outgoing traffic? Sure but instant traffic is not the only way to be tracked, and it is particularly difficult to get an overview for a browser.

A open source project is automatically safer to use. Sure, any binary can be injected with crap but in a closed source app there is really no way to know anything for sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The binary is your source. And it's THE ONLY source of truth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure the binary is what I run, but I am not following what your point is. If you are paranoid about binaries from an open source project, just compile it yourself. It’s easy. That’s just not an argument against open source.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not arguing against open source. What I'm saying is that binary is NOT an issue. You can analyze it exactly the same way you can do with source code.