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Re:Debian reproducibility statistics by yakubin on Thursday August 24, 2017 @08:26AM (#15089492)
On the contrary. Reproducibility means that given the source you are able to produce the exact same binary, i.e. you can verify that someone didn't modify it before building. When software isn't open, then reproducibility is meaningless, because you don't have the source, so: 1. you can't verify anything (you can't compile anything); 2. assurance of the binary not being modified gives you nothing, since you don't know if there is no malicious code in the original source code.

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