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g-b-rtoday at 6:22 AM1 replyview on HN

You're sure not vetting any byte of an executable, so building from source is safer.


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m-schuetztoday at 8:47 AM

Binaries or source, it's pretty much the same unless you thoroughly vet the entire source code. Malicious code isn't advertised and commented and found by looking at a couple of functions. It's carefully hidden and obfuscated.

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