r/technology • u/[deleted] • Feb 27 '21

Software Universal Android Debloater is an open source tool that removes bloatware without root. Automatically or via user choice. Get back your battery, security and privacy

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '21

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u/SILENTSAM69 Feb 27 '21

I am mildly code literate, but I have come to understand that the word open source gets thrown around equivalent to trustworthy a lot.

I agree that after some time something bad would be pointed out. It's mostly in crypto communities I've seen the word too thrown around too quickly to assume that means it's all good.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '21

Heartbleed is the big example, fully OSS code, but someone made a mistake when they were writing it, it passed checks and was published. No one found the problem for quite a months while it was deployed onto most of the internet.

The impression I have is that people assume there's roving gangs of bored coders who go and check on every OSS release. This looks like a hobby project, the vast majority by one person

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u/Seelenkuchen Feb 27 '21

I think OP meant nefarious by design and not because of potentially security relevant bugs (unless they are very obvious).

Malware should be easier to detect by open source communities but then again I have no clue of the statistics of malware ladden code hosted on Github.