schoenwolf-schroeder
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
@AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space to Open Source@lemmy.ml • 1 month ago

US cuts funding to F-Droid, Tor Browser, Let's Encrypt and Tails Linux

videos.abnormalbeings.space

external-link
message-square
107
fedilink
1
external-link

US cuts funding to F-Droid, Tor Browser, Let's Encrypt and Tails Linux

videos.abnormalbeings.space

@AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space to Open Source@lemmy.ml • 1 month ago
message-square
107
fedilink
You can find all of these videos as written articles, plus some extra content, at https://thelibre.news You can the channel grow by donating to the following platforms: Paypal: https://paypal.me/ni...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/post/952648

TEXT VERSION: https://thelibre.news/trump-cuts-funding-to-foss-projects/

  • @rbesfe@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    0•1 month ago

    TOR fundamentally cannot be backdoored. The US government funds it because more traffic on the network helps mask the traffic coming from CIA agents and the like

    • @HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      0•1 month ago

      I’m not going to outright disagree with your opinion but I honestly have my doubts.

      • @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
        link
        fedilink
        0•1 month ago

        Go look at the code, then.

        • @HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          English
          0•
          edit-2
          1 month ago

          Yeah whatever. Sorry you got butthurt.

          • @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
            link
            fedilink
            0•1 month ago

            Look, you either check for yourself, or trust people who have. The only other option amounts to building your own parallel reality.

            • @HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca
              link
              fedilink
              English
              0•1 month ago

              Let it go buddy.

              • @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
                link
                fedilink
                0•1 month ago

                You can also take an intermediate approach, actually. Usually I can tell from just the developer docs or whitepapers if something has a way of producing the guarantees it claims.

    • @BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk
      link
      fedilink
      English
      0•1 month ago

      Showing my ignorance here, but would genuinely like an explanation - aren’t/weren’t compromised exit nodes a thing?

Open Source@lemmy.ml

!opensource@lemmy.ml

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !opensource@lemmy.ml

All about open source! Feel free to ask questions, and share news, and interesting stuff!

Useful Links

  • Open Source Initiative
  • Free Software Foundation
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • Software Freedom Conservancy
  • It’s FOSS
  • Android FOSS Apps Megathread

Rules

  • Posts must be relevant to the open source ideology
  • No NSFW content
  • No hate speech, bigotry, etc

Related Communities

  • !libre_culture@lemmy.ml
  • !libre_software@lemmy.ml
  • !libre_hardware@lemmy.ml
  • !linux@lemmy.ml
  • !technology@lemmy.ml

Community icon from opensource.org, but we are not affiliated with them.

  • 2 users / day
  • 66 users / week
  • 427 users / month
  • 2.24K users / 6 months
  • 36.9K subscribers
  • 1.6K Posts
  • 21.4K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • Evan
  • @kevincox@lemmy.ml
  • @CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml
  • Lettuce eat lettuce
  • BE: 0.19.3
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org