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by financetechbro 422 days ago
Considering a library is just a component of the application and not the whole application itself. And one can typically understand the inputs and outputs of a library without having to know the detailed functionally of the code behind the library. I would say yes, it is different.

But this of course can still open up potential vulnerabilities or unexpected behavior. The way I see it, there is some level of trust behind the library that it was built competently