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by rmbyrro 993 days ago
Wouldn't it be relatively trivial for someone to compile, compare checksums and call them out?

It's more likely they'd introduce a security flaw that is hard to detect in the OSS code. If someone finds, they'd just claim it was a security incident which is now fixed (and then they'd move to another masked flaw).

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> Wouldn't it be relatively trivial for someone to compile, compare checksums and call them out?

Generally not. Most software does not have reproducible builds, so the checksums would be unlikely to match.