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Do you personally go through every line of source code for your Linux distribution?

That's not the relevant part. The relevant part is, if you find it's doing something you don't want it to be doing, can you read and modify the code that does that?
So you're not.
No but many people do. Try getting something by Linus and his kernel team lol. Good luck!
There have been many long live security issues that have been in popular open source software - including Linux
Yes sure but not intentional ones.
Actually sometimes it is intentional.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/06/xz-uti...

That’s just one we know about it.

Do you do that for Android?

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