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!

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    2 days ago

    It depends on the provenance of the code and who (if anyone) is downstream.

    A project that’s packaged in multiple distros is more likely to be reliable than a project that only exists on github and provides its own binary builds.