The question is simple. I wanted to get a general consensus on if people actually audit the code that they use from FOSS or open source software or apps.

Do you blindly trust the FOSS community? I am trying to get a rough idea here. Sometimes audit the code? Only on mission critical apps? Not at all?

Let’s hear it!

  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I implicitly trust FOSS more than closed source but because that trust has been earned through millions of FOSS projects.

    On occasion, I will dive deep into a codebase especially if I have a bug and I think I can fix it.

    You can’t do this with closed source or even source available code because there is no guarantee that the code you have is the code that’s been compiled.