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Spyware distributed using modified code in Nekogram release. Dev closes issue without response. (github.com)

submitted 2 days ago by artyom@piefed.social to c/opensource@programming.dev

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This is why we install from FDroid.

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[–] inari@piefed.zip 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Would an F-Droid release have found this issue?

[–] artyom@piefed.social 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No but it would have avoided it since its compiled from source.

[–] inari@piefed.zip 19 points 2 days ago

Yeah... one of the criticisms levied at F-Droid is that you need to trust them over the app developers but as we can see in cases like this, I think that's a feature, not a bug.

It's one reason I'll never use something like Obtainium for instance.