The question is simple. I wanted to get a general consensus on if people actually audit the code that they use from FOSS or open source software or apps.

Do you blindly trust the FOSS community? I am trying to get a rough idea here. Sometimes audit the code? Only on mission critical apps? Not at all?

Let’s hear it!

  • bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Full code audit is very time consuming. It’s impossible to audit all software someone uses. However if I know nothing about project, I do a short look at the code to understand if it follows best practices or not and make some assumptions about the code quality. The problem is that I can’t do this if I’m unfamiliar with the programming language the project is written in, so in most cases I try to avoid such projects.