you'd know for a fact the sources from which the executable you're using was compiled. this would, in theory, allow you to make sure it doesn't contain any mal

you'd know for a fact the sources from which the executable you're using was compiled. this would, in theory, allow you to make sure it doesn't contain any malicious code. in reality, of course, this is rather impractical since you'd need to manually verify every single source file and every single line of code.