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Never-before-seen Linux malware is “far more advanced than typical” (arstechnica.com)
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[–] ambitiousslab@feddit.uk 32 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You can trust the software in your distro's repositories (if you run a distro with well-maintained repositories). This is because, generally only well-known software gets packaged, the packager should be familiar with both the project and the code, and everything is rebuilt on the distro's own infrastructure, to ensure that a given binary actually corresponds to the source.

It might still be possible for things to slip through, but it's certainly much safer than random programs from online.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

*insert obligatory xz utils reference*