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Isn't this a promise of open source? User doesn't have to get a binary from someone, they could, build from source (given experience+time)
by edoceo 5y ago
Isn't this a promise of open source? User doesn't have to get a binary from someone, they could, build from source (given experience+time)
- hedora 5y agoEven for closed source apps, reverse engineering efforts (for sufficiently popular binaries) often find backdoors. This sort of auditing only works because each end user gets the same binary blob. (And if not, there’s a reasonably high likelihood of detection.)
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