Why woul building from source be safer? Are you veting every single line of third-party source code you compile and use?

You're sure not vetting any byte of an executable, so building from source is safer.

	▲	m-schuetz 39 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Binaries or source, it's pretty much the same unless you thoroughly vet the entire source code. Malicious code isn't advertised and commented and found by looking at a couple of functions. It's carefully hidden and obfuscated.