On 05/17/2013 04:19 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:26:07AM +0300, ianG wrote: > >> Is it unreasonable for us to expect Skype to go another way? Are we >> asking too much? > It is unreasonable for an closed source product by a commercial > vendor to go any other way. Makes perfect sense. as its sometimes required by law, other times required to keep the users safe or companies away from legal harm. > Fortunately, we have more or less > useful open source/P2P alternatives which can be be forked if they > start going sideways. I do wonder, can we reasonably expect that integrity of open source software today? Im not blaming anyone, let me explain: The threat of forking or noticing any wrong doing was probably enough in previous years. But these days, software is much bigger, back doors are much subtler, and worst of all - There is a lot of money to be made if you know of a back door. So the temptation of putting one has grown.
Has the community's ability to review code for such issues grown proportionally? I use more code in a day than I can reasonably review in a life time. (Not that I'm any example, but I think the point is clear.) I cant even pay for someone else to review it, since if they do find a bug, they can sell it for much more than what I can give them. Of course, I may just be paranoid, as I cant prove anything of the sort. > _______________________________________________ > cryptography mailing list > cryptography@randombit.net > http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
