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dublinben  ·  3445 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Detekt scans your computer for traces of surveillance spyware used by governments

You can read the source. It's doing some pretty standard signature recognition. I wouldn't consider this untrustworthy, as much as useless. If you are a target of state intelligence services, you're likely owned already. If you're running Windows, then you're certainly owned.

The people who could actually benefit from a tool like this (beyond the merely paranoid) have much bigger problems to worry about than anything this tool addresses.





Killerhurtz  ·  3445 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Fair. Thanks for the answer!