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by thih9 1672 days ago
I don’t think torrents are any different in that aspect from the rest of the web.

Just as you would download and run an executable from a trusted source, you can download a torrent of an executable (from that trusted source) and run it.

E.g. many Linux distributions offer torrent links next to regular downloads; if you trust that website, you can download either file.