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Comment by maccard

I do. Having source code available does6 mean anything if you can't verify the source yourself, or if the source can't be community certified. There's no point in a backend being open source, if nobody can verify what is running there. There's no point in an iOS app being open source if the app is distributed through the app store, as we have no way to verify that it is what it says it is.

Meanwhile if I'm running Debian I trust the maintainers have built the source code to distribute to me, similarly with homebrew and chocolatey.

> Its a matter of trust and good faith

Indeed it is, and you have to trust 1password, and if you don't, it doesn't matter whether there's good faith or not.

parent maccard 3 years ago

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