Why couldn't they just put up the source then? A closed-source privacy tool is quite the contradiction.

I wish people would stop thinking of open-source like it's some sort of panacea. The Ken Thompson Hack should be enough proof that what really matters is what gets run, not what the source code says.

For decades, the Windows community thrived with mods and such, all without source code.

If you have an unobfuscated .NET binary you pretty much have the source, and it will be honestly what it says it does.

It's not a panacea, but it's objectively better than closed-source. Thank you for pointing out that the binary is unobfuscated.

Straw man. Nobody said it's a panacea.

correct.

Шt amazes me that people blame WPD for closedsource, but they themselves use shutup10 :facepalm:

sure sure, shutup10 - closed source (with Obfuscated DLL inside), Microsoft partner :3