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You should basically compile everything yourself and read all the source code yourself if you want to be secure.

Good luck with that though. (Escpecially with things like, I don't know, browsers.)

My point exactly. No one is ever actually going to read all the code, so you have to start your trust somewhere. Especially if you're going to type `sudo make install` at the end (which is why I advocate things like ~/.local to prevent the need for that, but I digress).

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