It would be great to have government-funded groups of people auditing open source software world-wide.
Not any one government, but what if 50 countries put together a team of like… ten people to do the tedious work of constantly checking code. That would be 500 people who could regularly put out releases about what they’ve found, which could be verified by anyone world-wide.
In exchange, we all get free secure software for our tax dollars.
The US has CISA
Yeah, but they’re not really concerned with things like corporations farming user data or trying to improving free software everyone can access.
They make sure the government networks are secure, while also making sure it’s American corporations getting your data.
With all the recent security breaches I’ll take what I can get
True, but we could do better
Who’s gonna tell them?
