China still has a vested interest in censorship and monitoring and will likely bake it into any bespoke distribution that they build, particularly for government use.
It is understandable why they do so (yellow Parenti), just unfortunate that it's necessary.
I think the concern isn’t plainly installed spyware, but rather zero day vulnerabilities. However, it’s not like you need to own the project to introduce them, or discover them and wield them. At any rate, open source is the best way we can attempt to create secure software.
Deepin is developed by a private company and had some spyware issues itself. Nothing more sinister than other company-associated distros (lib media really played up the sinophobic angle of sending data to cHiNeSe SeRvErS), but something to be aware of.
China still has a vested interest in censorship and monitoring and will likely bake it into any bespoke distribution that they build, particularly for government use.
It is understandable why they do so (yellow Parenti), just unfortunate that it's necessary.
i mean if its open source, does it matter? someone can fork it and remove any spyware (if any).
I think the concern isn’t plainly installed spyware, but rather zero day vulnerabilities. However, it’s not like you need to own the project to introduce them, or discover them and wield them. At any rate, open source is the best way we can attempt to create secure software.
I suppose, though China also doesn't (and shouldn't) need to respect Western copyright laws, so it also doesn't need to make it open source.
It's... not really necessary, unless mass surveillance is a part of building productive forces and I'm high
It's not of building productive forces, but it is arguably part of facing the threat of the imperialist worlds espionage and subterfuge operations.
oh that
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They have Deepin which is pretty nice
Deepin is developed by a private company and had some spyware issues itself. Nothing more sinister than other company-associated distros (lib media really played up the sinophobic angle of sending data to cHiNeSe SeRvErS), but something to be aware of.