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   					<a href="../index.html">Previous Page</a></br></br><p><img src="../../assets/img/user.png" width="50px" height="50px"> <ba>nihilist@mainpc - 2024-04-29</ba></p>
-<h1>Why can't  I trust closed source software? </h1>
+<h1>Why can't  I trust closed source software for Privacy ? </h1>
 <p>"Hey, i just wrote this code, i compiled it, it gave me this .exe file, run it on your computer!</p>
 <p> What? You want the source code ? Hell no, just trust me bro!"</p>
+<p>Or in other words, why can't i trust an adversary to not look at me when i install one of his cameras in my bedroom ?</p>
           
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 <p>Most software companies (which can be corporations) out there are greedy, they work hard to produce software, and they hate to have any competition. Hence they want keep their software sourcecode private, to make it as hard as possible to others to arrive at the same level of functionality. That is exactly why closed source software is used by most people. </p>
 
 <p>The most popular example out there is Windows, they would definitely not like their sourcecode to be leaked/reversed like it with <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16992626/apple-github-dmca-request-ios-iboot-source-code">Apple's IOS</a>.</p>
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+          <h2><b>Privacy Is not a Spectrum</b></h2> </br> </br>
+<p>Like we have explained <a href="../privacy/index.html">previously</a>, Privacy is binary, you are either being watched, or you are not being watched.</p>
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+<p><a href="https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/should-privacy-guides-require-open-source-source-first-or-source-available-as-a-criteria-for-all-tools/22684/83">Whoever tries to tell you that "Privacy is a spectrum"</a> are just trying to justify that you should leave at least some closed source software on your computer if you don't feel like it, in the name of convenience.</p>
+<p><b>No you should not, you either have privacy or you don't.</b> You definitely do not have privacy when there are 100 cameras from 100 different adversaries in your bedroom, <b>and it is the same thing as with leaving ONE camera from ONE adversary in your bedroom</b>, the simple fact remains, <b>you do not have privacy as long as there is at a camera pointed at you.</b></p>
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+<p>When you have Windows installed, you constantly have a 100 cameras pointed at you, no matter what you do on the OS. </p>
+<p>When you have MacOS installed you may have 70 cameras pointed at you, you don't have privacy there all the same.</p>
+<p>You may have linux installed with only FOSS software, except that you have installed one closed-source software such as Discord, meaning you have only one camera pointed at you, <b>and because of that one closed-source software you didn't remove yet, you don't have privacy either.</b></p>
+<img src="5.png" class="imgRz">
+<p>So when you go on communities online that pretend to talk about privacy, you need to remain vigilant to what they recommend you should do, If at any point in time it includes doing something on Windows or macOS to have privacy, <b>you need to realize that they are trying to mislead you into a false sense of privacy</b> as shown in the examples above.</p>
+<p><u>TLDR:</u> you will never have privacy until you remove ALL of the cameras in your bedroom, you do not have privacy when you have 75 cameras, nor when you have 1 camera remaining, This means that <b>you only have privacy once you have removed all closed-source software from your computer, and that includes permanently getting rid of MacOS and Windows</b></p>
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+          <h2><b>Why is this relevant for Privacy ?</b></h2> </br> </br>
+<p>Privacy as a usecase on your computer requires that you only run software from which you are able to read the sourcecode of:</p>
+<p>I can just as easily write a software (let's say a chat application like Telegram), <b>I can make that software grab as much information as possible</b> like save the Computer model, serial number, get information on what other apps are running on your computer, what's the public IP address, take screenshots of what you're doing on your computer, <b>and I can make that application send all of that sensitive information to a remote server, while officially pretend that the additional network traffic is for "for telemetry purposes"</b>. </p>
+<p>All i need is to simply prevent you from being able to read the sourcecode, that way you have no way to disprove that this isn't actually telemetry.</p>
+<p>What's happening is that you have no visibility on what the software is doing, <b>it is not transparent</b></p>
+<p>That's why the first step is always to ONLY use software that is fully free and open source (FOSS), <b>so that you are at least ABLE to know what the software you are running is actually doing.</b> To be able to achieve Transparent use.</p>
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+<p>Once that's in check, you should spend some time to read the sourcecode of the software you are running. Or at the very least listen to what other privacy-minded people have to say about each piece of software. <b>So that you are able to know that the software does not contain any spying mechanism.</b></p>
+<p>If you find any software that actually does telemetry or any other spying mechanism, <b>you should remove it from your computer, if you intend to have privacy there</b>.</p>
+<p>It is only once you destroy all the cameras in your bedroom, and once you close all the blinds that the adversary outside can't peek into what you're doing in your bedroom. <b>In the same way, closed-source software is exactly the same, a camera for an adversary (the manufacturer of that software, or the government that they act on behalf of) to peek into what you're doing on your computer.</b></p>
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+<p>Keep that in mind, as this is the ABC of OPSEC you'll have to remember throughout the rest of the next blogposts i write, On any device of yours, there is only one type of acceptable software for Privacy, and that is FOSS software. It has always been this way, and will always remain this way.</p>
+<p>If at any point in time you see people recommend closed-source software for privacy purposes, <b>you need to realize that they are either misled or are actively trying to mislead you into a false sense of security</b>, and you should remind them that <b><a href="https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/should-privacy-guides-require-open-source-source-first-or-source-available-as-a-criteria-for-all-tools/22684/62">privacy and closed-source software are mutually exclusive.</a></b> hence the non-negociable need of using FOSS software for privacy.</p>
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           <h2><b>Remove surveillance using Open-Source Software</b></h2> </br> </br>
 <p>To conclude, here are the requirements you need to look for, for any software that you use:</p>
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-<li><p>It must be open source</p></li>
-<li><p>It must be self-hostable (for decentralisation) (meaning the serverside code must also be fully opensource)</p></li>
+<li><p>It must be FULLY free and open source (FOSS)</p></li>
+<li><p>Ideally, if servers are involved, It must be self-hostable (for decentralisation) (meaning the serverside code must also be fully opensource)</p> (<a href="https://www.change.org/p/signal-foundation-resume-open-source-code-for-signal-server-do-not-close-source-it">see how this is no longer the case with Signal</a>)</li>
 <li><p>It must implement privacy features like encryption</p></li>
 <li><p>It should not contain any telemetry, or any spyware.</p></li>
 <li><p>It should ONLY do what it was originally meant to do.</p></li>