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		nix23 on Nov 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MLAT order from Luxembourg for Signal user data >If there's a single piece of closed source code running on the servers, it ceases to be open source. Yeah no that's not the definition of opensource, if my opensource mailserver has a closed source spam-scanner, my mail server is still opensource - the spam-scanner

0xy on Nov 10, 2021 [–]

And when the spam scanner looks like:

phone_home_to_nsa(metadata, ip_address, sender, recipient);

Are you still comfortable with this 'open source' project?

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