I’m not even that interested in kitchenware (mostly) and I still enjoyed that video! Just goes to show how great he is. Hehe.
I’m not even that interested in kitchenware (mostly) and I still enjoyed that video! Just goes to show how great he is. Hehe.
It’s Technology Connections.
It’s always worth it. Because
There’s a certain point where it just comes down to trust. And if you distrust a company enough that you think they aren’t posting the same code to the git repository that they say they are, then maybe that’s when you shouldn’t be doing business with them.
This is the case with all organizations, corporate or otherwise.
So, I just looked it up and apparently their official stance is that auditing is questionably effective and thus unnecessary:
Our software is free and open source, while we repute at the moment [it’s] not acceptable to provide external companies with root access to our servers to perform audits which can not anyway guarantee future avoidance of traffic logging or transmission to third parties. On the contrary, we deem very useful anything related to penetration tests. Such tests are frequently performed by independent researchers and bounty hunters and we also have a bounty program.
In other words, their reasoning seems to be:
Personally, I don’t agree with points #2 and #3, but point #1 is fair I suppose. In my opinion, it should not be up to the users to hold the company accountable; and there is a difference between penetration tests and log auditing, as the former I believe are merely to check the resilience against outside hacking.
My end impression is that judging from their other documentation and forum posts, the fact that their software is fully open-source, and their past behavior in accordance with their stated values, I think I’m inclined to believe them. However, it is somewhat worrying nevertheless that there isn’t log auditing involved regardless of their actions.
What do you mean? Are they not good for privacy or security? They seem definitely more zealous about that on their FAQs and forum pages than, say, ProtonVPN, for sure.
THANK you for the advice. I will keep that in mind. I might start writing today while I’m at work. :)
Lol, that’s why I said yet. Give it another couple years; we might have started plasma cannons out of toothpicks and bra straps. Haha.
I’ll be married for 5 years next month. We haven’t killed each other (yet)!
That’s good news!
I feel that.
Spent 5 years in college, had to drop out because I ran out of money, now I work a dead-end job in retail for shit pay and like 70k in debt.
Don’t do college, kids. It ain’t worth it. Or, rather, do college but do community (or a trade school).
Good on you! That’s a HUGE accomplishment!!!
You are an inspiration. :)
Speaking as someone who rarely ever writes because life keeps getting in the way but still hopes to be published someday. Every day it seems that dream gets further and further away… :(
Not familiar with AliExpress, but yeah eBay might be an option. Thanks!
Definitely something I looked into. Sadly, all of the ones I found were only purchaseable on Amazon or from Walmart.
A short, medium, or long story
So, a story?
Excellent example.
Wowzer.
Like, at all? From the factory? That’s very strange, I would think.
Sadly, none that were not purchasable through only Amazon or Walmart.
Motherfuckers aren’t getting my money. (Amazon and Walmart, I mean, though technically also the product companies too I guess.)
Yeah, that’s the Olympian gods for ya.
There’s a reason almost all of Greek mythology can be summed up in only eight words:
“Unfortunately, Zeus was feeling rather horny that day.”