Am I crazy to feel paranoid using closed-source software?

[kalium]

@HauntSanctuary

Sometimes a game is completely owned by a foreign parent company that I wonder if the parent company have instructed to put malware in the games to poke around your computer. Epic games has been caught doing this, looking around at your Steam files. I wonder too if Path of Exile 2, a game I am currently playing does this as the game is completely owned by its parent company Tencent, but I am less worried because it is outside of my main network behind a firewall.

Would using the Steam (or your game launcher of choice) Flatpak, or running it in Firejail mitigate this in any meaningful way?

[User53]

@HauntSanctuary

Audits are only as good as the version the software is audited. After the software audit you are technically back to the unknown territory. You want ongoing audits, may yearly but not the vast majority of open source doesn’t do yearly audits, if any at all.

That not true.
If a projects source code gets audited, then we have higher justification to believe that the dev team of the project is not malicous and that source code they will produce in the future is also not malicous.

If the code’s integrity is very important people could also continuously audit every new commit to the main branch