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Malware comes precompiled and ready to run, it doesn't depend on you having a compiler installed.

True that! I'm looking at you, homebrew ..

Not sure why you're looking at Homebrew.

If you're feeling jumpy about binary packages, just set `HOMEBREW_BUILD_FROM_SOURCE="1"` in your shell profile.

Nobody's forcing binaries onto you.

True, but I don't have all the time in the world to read the sources, either ..

Then you should not install them on a machine with confidential data at all, source or binary. It's that simple!