the_rectifier

Reproducible builds are pretty standard in Debian.

No an immutable OS does not help, also flatpak is necessary and selinux not powerful enough. You just need sandboxing.

The cynicism in the other answers is appalling. Treating people like investments...

american society.

It's not groundbreaking: it happened again and again.

Not at all, it was focused on implementing backdoors and surveillance for decades before that.

> Rape used to mean only the last thing and it was regarded as basically the worst form of assault

No, it did not. That's why you find courts always charged offenders for multiple different crimes when they are carried out together: rape, assault, kidnapping, life threats...

I wouldn't call the images depressing, but certainly soul crushing.

How about no.

False. In many teams half of the engineers are randomly put on pip and cannot switch team.

This is exactly how manipulation is done and the reason for companies to do the funding.

You can trust a Linux distribution to provide reasonably secure software out of the box, like Debian / Freedombox

Quite the opposite.

Dumping VM memory contents is pretty trivial.

Not at all. Did you read the article?