Comment by landdate
1 day ago
Running external code will always be a risk. Even if it is not intended to be malicious it could still have issues that compromise security.
Read the source. If you don't have the time then you shouldn't run the software.
By “external code” do you mean code that is not written by yourself or the organization you are working in?
The Linux Kernel has 40 million lines of code, I don’t have the time to read that so I guess I better not use it.