{"id":10308,"date":"2023-03-18T08:13:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T07:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=10308"},"modified":"2023-03-18T08:13:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T07:13:59","slug":"dont-trust-proprietary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2023\/03\/18\/dont-trust-proprietary\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t trust proprietary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/story\/23\/03\/17\/2136202\/microsoft-is-testing-a-built-in-cryptocurrency-wallet-for-the-edge-browser\">Microsoft Is Testing a Built-In Cryptocurrency Wallet For the Edge Browser (source Slashdot).<\/a><strong>I strongly, strongly suggest everyone to avoid using this functionality because it is proprietary software. Not having the sources you can&#8217;t be sure what it really does. It can easily have a backdoor to let some external entities come in and raid (i.e. stole) your money.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Microsoft Is Testing a Built-In Cryptocurrency Wallet For the Edge Browser (source Slashdot).I strongly, strongly suggest everyone to avoid using this functionality because it is proprietary software. Not having the sources you can&#8217;t be sure what it really does. It can easily have a backdoor to let some external entities come in and raid (i.e.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2023\/03\/18\/dont-trust-proprietary\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proprietary-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6daft-2Gg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":624,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2015\/08\/06\/both-arent-liberi\/","url_meta":{"origin":10308,"position":0},"title":"Both aren&#8217;t &#8220;liberi&#8221;","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2015-08-06","format":false,"excerpt":"Chrome - one of the most widespread browser - is proprietary software with Chromium being is \"open source\" base. According to Debian #Debian Bug report logs for \"786909 - chromium: unconditionally downloads binary blob\" Chromium even when built from source code still try to inject binary blobs - proprietary software\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Proprietary software&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Proprietary software","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/category\/software\/proprietary-software\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"1000px-Chromium_11_Logo.svg","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/08\/1000px-Chromium_11_Logo.svg_-150x150.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9939,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2022\/12\/22\/yet-another\/","url_meta":{"origin":10308,"position":1},"title":"Yet another","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2022-12-22","format":false,"excerpt":"For my personal serie \"yet another reason to avoid x\", today we have Roomba: Intimate Photos By Roomba Vacuums Leaked Online Your robot vacuums are watching you and the resulting imagery of your most private moments can, horrifically, get leaked online\u2026 iRobot \u2026 confirmed that gig workers shared intimate photos\u2026\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ethics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ethics","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/category\/ethics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":392,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2015\/06\/19\/big-g-or-big-brother\/","url_meta":{"origin":10308,"position":2},"title":"Big G or Big Brother?","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2015-06-19","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0Google Criticized For 'Opaque' Audio-Listening Binary In Debian Chromium (source Slashdot): Debian, mother of Ubuntu, a major player in the software Libre world always required to have access to the sources of the programs they distribute1, especially in web-browsers. 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