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I call bullshit.

The fundamental problem here was a violation of chain of trust. Open source is only about the source being open. But if users are just downloading blobs with prebuilt binaries or even _pre-generated scripts_ that aren't in the original source, there is nothing a less-obscure build system will save you from as you are putting your entire security on the chain of trust being maintained.



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