The repository of the popular Syncthing fork for Android disappeared from GitHub and reappeared under dubious circumstances – is this an open-source hack?
Yes. It’s very very hard to read the source and know there’s no security bug in it. That’s 10x truer when the security bugs are potentially on purpose, and carefully hidden.
is it because it’s onerous to read the source?
Yes. It’s very very hard to read the source and know there’s no security bug in it. That’s 10x truer when the security bugs are potentially on purpose, and carefully hidden.
i would run a diff on the previous version compared to the current one.