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How safe are the "All available applications" section in Add/Remove

As long as you stick to the official repositories you're trusting the people Canonical trusts to do their packaging and the upstream software authors not to sneak backdoors into their software. Whether that's good enough for you can only be answered by you.
 
Originally posted by: Wolfcastle
Is it possible to have malicious software authors listed here?
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since the sourcecode can be viewed by anyone, it is much harder to hide something malicious than in proprietary software. I would say it is much less likely than what you would find buying software off the shelf of Best Buy and much less likely than the malicious stuff Microsoft has snuck in through Windows Updates.
 
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