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by AnthonyMouse 878 days ago
Anybody can diff the sources against upstream if they want to.

But also, how does that even mean anything? Bob submitted a patch to the mainline Linux kernel which Red Hat forked which Alice downloaded which Bob uploaded and now you're trusting Bob that the code is safe, which you were already doing anyway unless you were comparing the changes to the code yourself, which you can still do.