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by jbstack 135 days ago
Are you really inspecting every app you install, including all its dependencies, and the dependencies of those dependencies, to a level of detail sufficient to identify sophisticated and obfuscated backdoors?

In the real world, nobody does this. Instead, you make a conscious choice to trust the apps that you install. Every decision of whether to install an app is a tradeoff between (a) the risk that that trust is misplaced, and (b) the benefits of the app.