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[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Don’t assume even your own country is trustworthy in this.

My country is one of the world leaders in mass spying software development and even gave themselves the right to basically do deep packet inspections on everything going through it a long time ago, so...

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m pretty certain my country banned Kaspersky because they kept outing western backdoors and malware. And I would bet my life that Windows has supported free use government backdoors since at least Windows 10.

[–] Venator 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I think you made a typo, did you mean Windows 1.0 😝