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		inimino on Nov 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application You don't need to read it, you just need to be able to read it. Just because there are risks doesn't mean the risks are meaningfully comparable.

muraiki on Nov 13, 2020 [–]

Ken Thompson won a Turing Award for showing how that isn’t the case: http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thom...

teddyh on Nov 13, 2020 | | [–]

May I direct your attention to https://reproducible-builds.org/

inimino on Nov 14, 2020 | | [–]

That what isn't the case? Pointing out additional threat vectors doesn't in any way contradict my point.

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