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Verifying that open source software hasn't been tampered with
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Mar 15, 2026821 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I'm about to download some OSS software, and I would like to ensure (with a reasonable degree of certainty) that it hasn't been tampered with to insert malware. Specifically, it's a password manager (KeePassX), which seems like an extremely juicy target for hacking, so I'm feeling particularly para…
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How paranoid do you want to be? Do you trust your compiler? There is an interesting story (read the section Reflections on Trusting Trust), from Ken Thompson, one of the original creators of Unix. It describes a system where the login program has a …
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