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ISL on Aug 5, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: You don’t need reproducible builds

If the app store distributes binaries to thousands of people, and only one of them rebuilds from source to check, those thousands of people gain a substantial (but not perfect) level of protection.

ansible on Aug 5, 2020 [–]

Yes, it would be "not community-minded" if you did a build, and it didn't match the app store, and you told no one.

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