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D4AHNGM on Aug 16, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: OS X 10.10.5 kernel local privilege escalation

Not sure why you're looking at Homebrew.

If you're feeling jumpy about binary packages, just set `HOMEBREW_BUILD_FROM_SOURCE="1"` in your shell profile.

Nobody's forcing binaries onto you.

fit2rule on Aug 16, 2015 [–]

True, but I don't have all the time in the world to read the sources, either ..

qwertyoruiop on Aug 17, 2015 | [–]

Then you should not install them on a machine with confidential data at all, source or binary. It's that simple!

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