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RE: Voluntary Programming to Help Humanity!
I find what usually happens is that your help goes unnoticed or is just shit-canned.
You have to have an in. Have talked with the people on the development team. Become accredited with them. Then you could actually get to some coding.
I have tried on this platform... but the developers don't actually seem to be here. All of my suggestions of how to fix certain pieces have fallen on deaf ears.
So, I would love to see a follow up post on getting on any of the above teams.
Well yes usually the dev team is closed or is picky about recruiting new members due to infiltrators, people have to be vetted before joining the development team.
But that doesn't mean that you cant check and analyze the code. The latest source code is always available for public test, and most of the time the bug is there for a long time, it's just it's not discovered. It's almost never the latest commit that breaks things it's always an older bug.
So you can just download the latest source code and play around with it, check the portions that handles encryption. I myself have verified the Electrum source code, although I am an amateur programmer, I have already found a bug in the key generation algo and reported it to the developer.
With the Linux kernel and things like that it's more complicated. But things like Noscript or the OTR plugin can be easily audited and reviewed by essentially anyone who has a decent amount of programming expeirence.