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Wouldn't trust a gov app in europe either. But then again i don't trust any app and have them firewalled at least .
The EU covid app was released on fdroid. I would trust it if it was open source, audited by a third party, and finally made available on fdroid.
Ok this has some right for existence... Yet,just being oss isn't always the point alone. Without checking the code myself I still just have to trust.
Fortunately fdroid does some checks. And the third party audit does some checks. Thats already a lot of others checking it.
Sure, but it's still just trusting others. Ok,maybe it's just my paranoia speaking...