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paxysyesterday at 5:39 PM2 repliesview on HN

You are also using proprietary, closed-source hardware and operating system underneath the app that can do whatever they want. This line of reasoning ultimately leads to - unless you craft every atom and every bit yourself your data isn't secure. Which may be true, but is a pointless discussion.


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threatofrainyesterday at 7:06 PM

No it means you calculate how much risk you're taking on, vendor by vendor. Do all companies have the same reputation before your eyes?

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OutOfHereyesterday at 6:49 PM

That's a bad take because the vendors there are different; they're not Meta. As such, it's not pointless.