If you download source code from an insecure web site, then you might get source code that's different from the source code that other people have read, with ma

If you download source code from an insecure web site, then you might get source code that's different from the source code that other people have read, with malicious modifications. So the situation described in the article wouldn'tve been any better if the main download was in the form of source code; you'd have to carefully read the whole thing, rather than trust that other people have read the whole thing, which isn't feasible for more than a few small programs.