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  • laylawashere44@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoPrivacy@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    9 months ago

    It’s true Vivaldi is not free open source, the code is owned by Vivaldi however, the source code is freely available to audit which is the main security benefit you would get from a FOSS browser like Brave and Firefox. It is plainly not spyware.

    Yes there is the security risk that someone might find an exploit in the source code, and if Vivaldi is notified, users would have to wait for Vivaldi to fix it. As opposed to a third party potentially issuing a patch quicker.

    But this is also basically true for Firefox and Brave. If a security flaw is found it’s more than likely going to be the Firefox or Brave team that fixes it first.

















  • Honestly there will probably be no resolution. Pakistani Intelligence services will put pressure on their contacts in the insurgent groups, find and kill the planners of the attack. But nothing otherwise will change. There could be a long term resolution if Balochistan gets richer somehow, and therefore more influential.

    It should be noted that the Pakistan intelligence services are an incredibly Machiavellian group. They quite often tend to know where every terrorist group is based, what they are planning, who and where the leaders are, etc.

    So why don’t they do anything about it? Well, having a terror group on the payroll is very useful sometimes. Whether you want a politician dead, an Afghan Taliban member surveilled or dead, need to justify funding. Now they aren’t the illuminati, they don’t control them directly, they just tend to just not care when the terrorist groups are targeting someone they don’t like.

    Again not the illuminati and there have been times when they fuck up, including a Taliban attack on the Army Public School, Peshawar, a K-12, where the Taliban specifically went for the older kids of security forces personal as they are less replaceable. Astoundingly evil honestly, was the country’s 9/11 moment for sure.

    If you want to get an idea of how the politics of Pakistan work, ‘The Assassination’ (of Benazir Bhutto) by the BBC World Service is incredibly insightful. It’s from a reporter who was very close to the ex-PM and witnessed everything first hand.