Brendan Eich • 1/12/2014

Trust but Verify

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This article explores the growing difficulty of trusting software privacy due to government surveillance laws that can force companies to secretly inject code. It explains how Mozilla Firefox's 100% open-source nature allows security researchers to verify its builds, providing a critical advantage over closed-source browsers for ensuring no undetected surveillance code is present.

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