sgtlion [any]@hexbear.nettoLinux@lemmy.ml•How do we know if there aren't a bunch of more undetected backdoors?English
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3 months agoYou can’t trust any of it to be totally secure, it’s effectively impossible. But, this is true of all software, at least open source is being audited and scrutinised all the time (as demonstrated).
All you can do is follow best practices.
Honestly, IRC was a very functional, easy, free, low-resource and privacy friendly chat protocol and I don’t really see why it got left behind. If you wanted image/ file support that could really be implemented client and/or server side.