• transientDCer@lemdro.id
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    1 year ago

    The benefit of open source apps is anyone can view the code to see if there is malware or other installed.

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      1 year ago

      This is a bit of a fallacious point in this context - it suggests:

      • apps will be investigated by its users (not guaranteed, nor even likely for unpopular apps)
      • an app will even have users capable of detecting malware (I don’t know squat about phone malware patterns, so I wouldn’t be effective at it even if I did scan through thousands of lines of code)