Not discrediting Open Source Software, but nothing is 100% safe.
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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Eh, the big reason is that if the changes are by a non-maintainer they will get caught in the PR if it’s malicious. If not, then it’s up to auditing. I do tend to audit smaller software that I use, nothing like firefox, but I read through a ton of stuff before running it.