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by dtech 4009 days ago
> But of course nothing beats compiling from source.

Did you assemble a bootstrap compiler yourself? Your binary compiler could be backdoored! [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdoor_(computing)#Compiler_...

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I've no idea why you've been downvoted. While it's not amazingly pertinent, it's worthy to note that security from source assumes your compiler is being honest.