AnIDFB@lemm.ee to Sync for Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoLJ, what do you think of this warning on join-lemmy.org?lemm.eeimagemessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11imageLJ, what do you think of this warning on join-lemmy.org?lemm.eeAnIDFB@lemm.ee to Sync for Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square5fedilink
minus-squareZagorath@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoI find warnings like this rather amusing, because unless you compiled it yourself, even an open source application could secretly have malicious data-harvesting code added to it.
minus-squareGenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoF-Droid has verified and reproducible builds. On the Play Store or iOS App Store, though, anything goes.
minus-squareTier 1 Build-A-Bear 🧸@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoIsn’t the point of open source that you can check the code for yourself though? Can’t do that with closed source
I find warnings like this rather amusing, because unless you compiled it yourself, even an open source application could secretly have malicious data-harvesting code added to it.
F-Droid has verified and reproducible builds.
On the Play Store or iOS App Store, though, anything goes.
Isn’t the point of open source that you can check the code for yourself though? Can’t do that with closed source