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You don't get to see the code.

That's like saying Microsoft in the 90s/2000 could do no wrong because all eyes were on them. Or enron...

But what would I do with the code? I can’t read it, I can’t verify it, I can’t guarantee that it’s harmless. What I, as a normal user can do, is to go to the Financial Times or maybe even The Verge where they tell me that Apple did something stupid.

You could do the same thing you do when you want services which you cannot perform yourself: pay for the service.

You could create a fund with like-minded people for the code to be reviewed. The benefit would be that for each subsequent release the cost would be much lower than for the initial one.

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