Comment by prezk

All the while, Linux is going towards reproducible builds (Debian just announced it as a policy). This is of course the only sane way for FOSS, and, I believe, the only sane long term approach in any case. Security by obscurity, while not worthless, is just a thin mitigation layer. By the way, build-time randomization is ineffective in light of AI analysis---it needs to be per-binary-run, in the style of KASLR.