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

  • mobley@ani.social
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    1 year ago

    You shouldn’t automatically trust open source code just because its open source. There have been cases where something on github contains actual malicious code, but those are typically not very well known or don’t have very many eyes on it. But in general open source code has the potential to be more trustworthy especially if its very popular and has a lot of eyes on it.

    • Rocinante@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      It’s one reason I haven’t rushed to try out every lemmy app that has come out yet.