Ventoy is a tool to make a USB with multiple ISOs bootable, letting you select which ISO to use on boot. Another newly-created account claims to be the dev’s friend and translator and has received no contact from the maintainer.

  • This is ridiculous. You don’t trust “Chinese maintainers” (“even if legit” lol), because the “CCP” might threaten “their family to get a backdoor inserted”.

    Absolutely unhinged level of fantasy in the context of this project. A nation of 1.4 billion people and you don’t trust anyone there to write software? You know they made your phone and pretty much everything else right? Also, the idea that “the CCP” is somehow uniquely (among governments) willing and able to coerce or commission backdoors in software is a feverishly deluded attitude.

    Propaganda has put a backdoor in your brain.

    •  BCsven   ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 
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      We have chinese police here in Vancouver (edit Non Canadian force), if residents speak badly about CCP these “Police” show up at the door and try to coherce them back to mainland. I’m not regurgitating the articles, my friend living in vancouver had them show up. I’m not trusting blobs.

            • if you search Chinese Police Canada (or USA) there are tons of articles that are way more in depth, and describe encounters, etc.

              I added that link so people don’t think I’m making it up when my friends house is getting door knocked by two CCP police.

              It does not directly relate to Ventoy, it relates to why I would not trust a chinese product as we have first hand witness here in Canada of CCP harassing residents or forcing them back to china. There is that much control, even when they don’t live in China, that if CCP wanted to have widespread spying they would just pick a dev with family in the mainland.