Sat Apr 11, 2015 14:13 in General Talk
Actually, you both missed my point.
I'm just saying don't trust $randomdude for security advice.
You shouldn't trust the AV manufacturers either. How do you know their code isn't malicious itself? The link earlier in the thread even says "We can't prove they stole our code, because it's a secret, and we can't let you check it's okay". That's insane.
AFAIK, there's only Clam that lets you look at the code - and I wouldn't recommend Clam unless you're a mail server.
And you can't just move to Linux, because we rely on SELinux, which came from the NSA. Oh, but FreeBSD ported it too.
So, there isn't an uncompromised defence in existence.
And you can't trust me either - I'm a backendyweb generalist, not a security expert...
All I'm saying is for something that sits between you and all your private conversations, and all your money, and increasingly all your interaction with business and government, do your own research, don't rely on one thread on a GPT site.