qBitController is a free and open-source app for controlling qBittorrent from an Android device.

  • @GingeyBook@lemm.ee
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    96 months ago

    I understand the developer may be known and trusted

    But I do not have the expertise to do my own thorough code review

    • @GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml
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      156 months ago

      If that’s of your concern, you can’t download the play store version either. It is the same app, has the same signature.

      • melroy
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        116 months ago

        as if the play store only contains safe APKs right?

      • @GingeyBook@lemm.ee
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        26 months ago

        Excuse my ignorance and correct me if I’m wrong

        But does the play store not do some sort of scanning itself?

        • @GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml
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          156 months ago

          Even worse. Many apps have google signature instead of the developers. They upload their key and give it to google. Horrible practice. Nowadays, fdroid gravitates towards reproducible builds with the dev’s own signature and google is going the other way round. Gravitating towards an unsafe “best practice” …

        • Norah (pup/it/she)
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          86 months ago

          Potentially, but that doesn’t really matter, as you can match the signatures of the two versions and see that they are the same. You cannot fake that and have one version have different code, it’s not possible.

      • ChewyOP
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        26 months ago

        They do basic checking for known malware.