What Mother board do I have?

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Paul Johnson said:
Sure it does. Consider that many eyes make bugs shallow.

If the public has no access to the source, the public has no assurance
that
what they're getting in that black box of a binary does what it claims
without being a security hazard or a danger to their system. You wouldn't
trust your medicine to such methods, would you?
Which do you trust to do what it claims more and why?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tylenol

So what makes proprietary products with no peer review any smarter in
software?
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You make your own medicine?
Most of us trust that it works as it's supposed to when the doctors approve
of it.
If you can't trust software works as it's supposed to from the people who
put it on the web for download, you do your own test. Run an AV check on
it, install a program that monitors for registry changes, run the program on
a PC with no sensitive data on it, then
 
Eric said:
You make your own medicine?
No.

Most of us trust that it works as it's supposed to when the doctors
approve of it.
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And the doctors get a chance to approve of it because open review of the
medication in question is required for safety and to make sure it does what
it's supposed to without side effects. Medicine is essentially open source
when it comes to QA.
If you can't trust software works as it's supposed to from the people who
put it on the web for download, you do your own test. Run an AV check on
it, install a program that monitors for registry changes, run the program
on a PC with no sensitive data on it, then
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No sensitive data and no connection to the Internet. You can't trust a
black box any more than you can trust the unknowable.
 
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