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The installer has included a root certificate before that gets installed without asking. Also there are some code blobs in the code iirc.
Also how they handled the initial wayland "support".
It is relatively easy to smuggle in backdoors if you are the maintainer of the code and afaik there was not even an independent audit.
Saying it is fine just because of it being OS is really naive.
Code blobs? Can you show where?
I cannot, i did some searches when i wrote the comment but could not find info about it. It is possible that i am confusing it with another project. I added a iirc but maybe that was not clear enough that i am not sure about it.
Idk what iirc means
if i recall correctly