I know there are plenty of software missing from here. This is just a fun infographic I made, no need to take it seriously :)

  • hansolo@lemmy.today
    2·
    22 hours ago

    Ah, I believe this is what’s called “a conspiracy theory” if you had more details.

    • nebulaone@lemmy.world
      2·
      16 hours ago

      For Proton it is the “tech bro”-y feeling and for Signal it is wondering about financing. Also, if you are paying for your own audits there is an obvious conflict of interest.

      • hansolo@lemmy.today
        4·
        13 hours ago

        I’m sorry - paying for an audit is somehow a conflict of interest? How exactly is that?

        As someone who had to contract auditing firms every year, and personally sign off in their report as part of our compliance, I would love to hear how I should have …what? Won the audit lottery? Applied for some sort of government assistance? Prayed to an audit fairy godmother?

        Who the F else is paying for our audit? I want free audits! I bet everyone does.

        • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world
          1·
          16 minutes ago

          My guess is they think that since you’re paying for the audit the auditors won’t bust you for fraud, which is cute, since the auditors are asked to audit specific things that the company asks them to audit. They’re not released on the company like witch hunters, with wide open access to everything, cutting a swathe through fraud and criminality while people are furiously burning documents in the basement. So there is no conflict of interest, since the auditors are looking at what the people using them are asking them to look at.