Proprietary software contains spyware. Sky is blue. Water is wet.
this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2026
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Open source software you don’t code review and build yourself can also contain spyware.
while it can, there probably is some arch user who runs the program too and notices it suddenly takes 2ms longer to do something thusly finding the xz attack.
so, yeah foss isn’t inherently safe, but most probably saf er
Projects that have lots of attention and assuming you always compile from source. But someone could easily distribute a binary that is different than the source.
People should do frequent audits, especially network traffic. I had this one file manager that was kinda like Midnight Commander. Someone on a forum said “check out me app” etc. immediately on launch it made network requests…… why? Anyway, definitely don’t use that for long!!
Don’t use chrome, problem solved.
somebody did not read the article
no, he’s right in some way. claude desktop is spyware, but it only spies through chromium based browsers, so if you don’t use chrome, you’re safe … for now. until they install their backdoor in safari/ firefox based browsers too
No, not really solved. The problem is still Claude trying to install spyware and by extension the user that is trying to install Claude.
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