I've some questions about Ghidra released by NSA on Github. And research about it then saw a ycombinator thread for it. That answer was clever and funny.

As title marked, you really okay for just "open source" to trust it?

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foss auditing is done collectively. if there are many eyes on the code and it's popular with users and contributors, it's probably trustworthy.

if it's a small but obscure utility i tend to once over the code just to make sure it's not doing anything malicious.

if it's a big but unknown project or something complex that goes over my head, i tend to distrust it.

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