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Just as a note, a project being open-source doesn't necessarily provide a 100% guarantee that it doesn't contain any (possibly obfuscated) malicious code. Our community likes to think that someone else would catch it, but enough people thinking that way can (and likely often does) lead to the bystander effect. So it's always good to be wary :)

Edit: Heartbleed was a good example of this -

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3223203/vulnerabilities/wh...

> The most ironic thing here is that OpenSSL is open source software. Anyone could look at the code, and presumably hundreds did, but nobody noticed the fairly elementary coding error.




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