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Does anyone build GrapheneOS "from scratch"?
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The fact that devs sign the builds doesn't protect you from a Jia Tan type of actor. Jia Tan had social-engineered they way to a maintainer and then dropped their backdoor in the .tar releases. If you had compiled from the tree you couldn't be affected. It's possible to fail to review malicious commits even in this case, but it is still more transparent than pre-packaged releases. And there's no point to reproducible builds if no one actually reproduces them.
Yes, absolutely, yet the fact that we even know who they are proves that it's definitely an odd case. It's important to remember it but it's definitely not a normal situation.
You don't know anything about the lead developer.