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What's the auditing/vetting process like to get an Android app into the F-Droid repository? To ask it another way, what's to stop an evil developer from uploading a backdoored Android app to the F-Droid repos?
What's the auditing/vetting process like to get an Android app into the F-Droid repository? To ask it another way, what's to stop an evil developer from uploading a backdoored Android app to the F-Droid repos?
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Answered on Apr 4, 2022
You asked - Is F Droid safe? The answer is - The "Security Module" as per the link below clearly states the following: Their security precautions: additional security precautions are taken to make it as hard as possible to exploit this vector. included on the HSTS preload list, so major browsers will only ever use HTTPS for all connections to f-droid.org
And as for the in-app application:
As others have said, we don't audit every single app that makes it into the store. But we do make sure that everything is free software, and do test/investigate to a certain degree. There was recently a study made of the amount of malware apps in each app store for Android. I can't find it now, but IIRC it was a pdf and should have been published in the past year. Basically, what it said is that many alternative stores smaller than Google Play were close to having no malware, but only one had absolutely none: F-Droid. I guess what I'm trying to say is that we're not bulletproof, and we never said we were. Our only promise to the users is that the apks we distribute come from the source that is publicly available, and have been built and distributed by the F-Droid server tools which are also free software. So far, this policy seems to have worked well
Link- https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/3cjj2e/how_secure_is_fdroid/ Reddit, Answering the OP's Question https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Security_Model/ Source https://f-droid.org/en/2018/09/04/second-security-audit-results.html Recommended