> Proprietary software is like if they give you a recipe, but in a form that
you can't read;
It's not the first time you bring forward this argument. Do note that freedom
1 is rarely, and for clear reasons of lack of knowledge, time and limited
human capacity, exercised individually but rather collectively. A developer
will think 10 times before shipping anything malicious in their source code.
What you should worry about is the binaries you commonly install. Do they
really correspond to the source? How much exactly are you trusting the
maintainers of your distribution?
https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/About
