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minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down5·4 months agoCompiling the app is irrelevant if I don’t read the source.
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down3·4 months agoThat’s nonsense, because many different people read the source and audit open source software. While it’s certainly possible to sneak malicious code in, the trust doesn’t depend on each single individual auditing it. It’s a collective effort.
minus-squarePup Biru@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agookay, but reproducible builds solve the rest of that problem https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoYeah, now that they finally have reproducible builds, at least you can trust that the client is doing what it says it’s doing.
Compiling the app is irrelevant if I don’t read the source.
That’s nonsense, because many different people read the source and audit open source software. While it’s certainly possible to sneak malicious code in, the trust doesn’t depend on each single individual auditing it. It’s a collective effort.
okay, but reproducible builds solve the rest of that problem
https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/
Yeah, now that they finally have reproducible builds, at least you can trust that the client is doing what it says it’s doing.