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Yup, the only way to combat this as a smalltime dev would be to turn off auto updates and make people build from source.

>>xeroma+(OP)
yea `curl <url> | gcc` is much safer...

>>xeroma+(OP)
Why woul building from source be safer? Are you veting every single line of third-party source code you compile and use?

>>tjwebb+11
Security through ..rarity? Maybe not for nation state actors though.

>>m-schu+x1
You're sure not vetting any byte of an executable, so building from source is safer.

>>g-b-r+d6
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.

>>m-schu+Ri
That's

However much the code is hidden and obfuscated, some parts of the source code are going to be looked upon.

For a binary, none, ever, except in the extremely rare case that someone disassembles and analyzes one version of it.

The fact that open-source doesn't coincide with security doesn't mean that it isn't beneficial to security.