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> Simple but not 100% foolproof, you can mutate your source code and verify the changes propagate.

If I was evil, I wouldn't have a totally separate source tree and binary that I shipped; I'd have my CI process inject a patch file. As a result, everything would work as expected - including getting any changes from the public source code - but the created binaries would be backdoored.




Yeah I can fix this with work but just getting some users would be helpful first





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