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> I know it sounds weird, but unless you reviewed the source code AND built the binary from it, no open source software is to be trusted.

That's probably true, but if you want to be really paranoid you'd also want to be sure to compile it with a machine, operating system, and compiler that they are unlikely to have tampered with. Maybe something really old or esoteric or both?



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