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Alejandro9Ryesterday at 4:39 PM4 repliesview on HN

The thing is that how do you know at the end of the day that the compiled binary hasn't been tampered with "extra code" besides what's in the repo?

I don't even think notarization gets rid of this problem neither, so the best you can do for this is compile it yourself. Maybe I'm wrong!


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alexford1987yesterday at 4:41 PM

Compiling it yourself is the best/only thing you can do if you really want to know what code went into a binary.

prmoustacheyesterday at 5:47 PM

What prevents you from compiling it if it is open-source?

That's what I do with every project delivered as docker image. I rebuild the app and the image.