Some corporations falsely claim that proprietary software is more secure than software that respects your freedom. With proprietary software, users are unable to see that they're being spied on and only a handful of developers know how it works, where the weak spots are, and what the software really does. While free software isn't necessarily secure against surveillance/hacking, everyone can help to cover blind spots instead of providing hackers with ties to China a buffet-worth of data.
Conversation
Notices
-
Free Software Foundation (fsf@hostux.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 00:23:53 JST Free Software Foundation -
Free Software Foundation (fsf@hostux.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 00:24:47 JST Free Software Foundation Read more about hackers breaching several US telecommunication service providers here: https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/14/us-confirms-china-backed-hackers-breached-telecom-providers-to-steal-wiretap-data/
-