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by Draiken 166 days ago
I guess we can't win, can we? I worried more about random developers getting compromised since the surface area is much larger, but at the same time one entity compiling all packages makes them a more attractive target.

We've seen the released bundles being different to the source code before too AFAIR, so whether it's a single repository or F-Droid, both can easily screw users up if compromised.

I don't want to be paranoid but the world's not making it easy.

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What I'd like to see is enforced reproducible builds from multiple sources with publicly published and verifiable results that don't fall out of date.