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In case you missed it: Bank info-stealing malware found in 90+ Android apps with 5.5M installs (mashable.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[+] [email protected] -19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Exactly. Neckbeards love to pretend open source magically has no security vulnerabilities, and that the ability to inspect the source means you'll never install anything nefarious.

I expect all of them to have read the source for every single package they've ever installed. Oh and the Linux source too, of course

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Yes, opensource doesn't magically fix all vulnerabilities. But it is for sure way better then closed source, where you don't have a way of auditing the code

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I have never seen anyone make that claim.

Lots of arguments saying it's an improvement, but never that it magically fixes everything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Neckbeards love to pretend open source magically has no security vulnerabilities

Who does? Feels like you're just talking about inexperienced "btw i use arch" kinda skiddies

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Another classic lie. 'Open source' misses the point of libre software. Anti-libre software [malware] bans us [everyone else] from removing malicious source code.