Thread: Risks of open source
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DaveP1 is offline DaveP1
2009-11-18 , 20:53
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#8
Originally Posted by Devil View Post
What if there was some evil developer to create a trojan, maybe covered by an application, that slowly uses your Data for spamming or what not.
Or even makes undercover calls? sends out your contacts or text messages to marketing 'baddies'.
It depends on where you get your software. Certainly malware can be written for Maemo and the source code may seem clean but may not match the compiled code. On the other hand, legitimate sites check these things.
 

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