• vext01@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 months ago

    If it’s any software you didn’t write yourself or audit every line of…

    For a typical Linux distro that’s tens of thousands of packages…

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      4 months ago

      I am no expert on code-auditing. But I’m slightly at peace that there are 100s of experts looking at the code because it’s open-source. But i also understand mistakes can still happen. It’s not a perfect system, but it’s the best solution so far.

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        4 months ago

        There’s some truth to that, but bad actors have managed to slip things through in the past. It happened recently with xz.

        I guess my point is that we put a lot of trust in strangers when we run any code on our systems. Open or not.