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Not discrediting Open Source Software, but nothing is 100% safe.

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[–] bill_1992@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Even audited source code is not safe. Supply-chain attacks are possible. A lot of times, there's nothing guaranteeing the audited code is the code that's actually running.