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Spyware distributed using modified code in Nekogram release. Dev closes issue without response. (github.com)
submitted 3 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 3 days ago

Would an F-Droid release have found this issue? 

[-] artyom@piefed.social 15 points 3 days ago

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

[-] inari@piefed.zip 20 points 3 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.

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