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Seeing a lot of outdated apps being recommended, is that safe? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've come to realize that a lot of foss android apps are pretty outdated and usually abandoned. Is that even safe to use? Like even the fdroid archive repository, are those safe to use? I'm still rather new to the foss world, but in my mind it seems a very outdated app is probably not safe or am I missing something here?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Gotcha. But what's stopping cyber criminals from seeing these abandoned repos and possibly taking over and implement malware or what not

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Have you ever used Github? People can't just push code to the main repo.

And all submissions to F-Droid are checked for this kind of thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I mean yes I use github for reference and sometimes downloading but I don't actually know a whole lot about it like push and pull requests and what not, as I haven't found a need to learn it yet. So what you're saying is to basically download apps from github instead of fdroid to ensure you get the latest?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, I'm not. I'm saying that downloading from F-Droid is perfectly safe, as they verify all updates before putting them on the repo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Ohhh I understand, thanks