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by get 3045 days ago
That sounds scary. That means the security of your system and data is at the mercy of all those maintainers?

I can't imagine any big companies work like that. Execute code on their servers which is under the control of 'somebody from the internet'.

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I can't imagine the opposite could ever happen, be it small companies or big ones - there is not a single company on Earth that has the time to audit every line of every piece of software they run. Especially if that software is proprietary and source isn't even available.
It's not about auditing every line of code. It's about a chain of trust.

I can not imagine that the security of Facebooks servers is at the mercy of a chain of anonymous coders.