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I've some questions about Ghidra released by NSA on Github. And research about it then saw a ycombinator thread for it. That answer was clever and funny.

As title marked, you really okay for just "open source" to trust it?

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[-] monovergent@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago

Not entirely and with absolute certainty, but more than any proprietary software in general. The more eyes on it the better.

At the end of the day, you have to trust someone and a few black boxes in between as soon as you connect to the internet. So if there's something I'd really rather not let out into the world, it's either on an airgapped encrypted system or a piece of paper hidden where my keys get lost.

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