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Is F-droid insecure?
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this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2025
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The biggest problem with F-Droid is that they sign the apps themselves, so if they ever get compromised, an attacker would be able to send malicious updates to any app installed via F-Droid. So now you need yo trust 2 parties (app developer and F-Droid) instead of 1. This is fixed by reproducible builds, which F-Droid does support but which most developers don't bother with (F-Droid needs to start pushing for this more aggressively imo).