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> so they're assuming the only build being compromised is the one that ends up in the repo and no one can confirm that easily. So just have two (or more) identical servers in separate locations under different people's control so they aren't both compromised?

In the end, it should be more like 1000+ servers. It's probably quite trivial for a three-letter agency to hack the notebook of one or two open-source contributors. It's less trivial to hack hundreds or thousands of different servers hosted by different people in different regions, with varying amounts of tinfoil.




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