We trust open source apps because nobody would add malicious codes in his app and then release the source code to public. It doesn't matter if someone actually looks into it or not, but having the guts to publish the source codes alone brings a lot of trust on the developer. If the developer was shady, he would rather hide or try to hide the source code and make it harder for people to find it out.

[–] And009@vlemmy.net 9 points 2 years ago

Since it's publicly available and used widely enough, there would be 'those' people who like finding cracks in code or just have knack for looking deep through all kinds of data.

Not everyone is malicious and that part of humanity is something we have to trust in.

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