I think that this would be great, since source code auditing would provide insight into anti-consumer additions like malicious backdoors, hidden spyware capabilities, unintended vulnerabilities, etc. However, this could be very bad if this passes and then escalates to mandatory source code modification at the request of a sovereign state. As always, there are possible pros and cons to this approach.
India proposes requiring smartphone makers to share source code with the government
Before anyone gets their hopes up that India is pushing for open source software.
PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
How does that sound promising at all? Especially when initiated by a government, previously having attempted to enforce government spyware, to be installed on all consumer smartphones. The following excerpts are from India’s proposed phone security rules that are worrying tech firms
Defined to be potentially harmful by who? Right.
We cannot approve of the security patch just yet, as we must first extensively exploit the vulnerability…