I understand that probably there is little interest if you are a device ROM maintainer to embed a backdoor into it. But it’s still possible. Lineage has a fairly simple and open build process. Should I do it on my own? Or should I trust the maintainers and not bother? What are your thoughts?

  • SmoothSurfer@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    Auditing the code may seem as a problem but such a big project is already been auditing by many developers worldwide which means it is highly unlikely they all are sus

    • FarLine99@lemm.eeOP
      11·
      1 year ago

      We are talking about maintainer’s backdoor in build, not in original code 🙂

      • SmoothSurfer@lemmy.ml
        2·
        1 year ago

        even if you compiled the code yourself, unless you can audit code yourself you still have to just trust the developers

        That is what I was referring to. What I was saying is even if you cant audit the source code you still have reasons to trust the code

        • FarLine99@lemm.eeOP
          1·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, I have many reasons to trust the code. Definetly. If it is in build and nothing else then we are good!