I've thought of creating a site that will constantly check the official downloads for any nefarious changes and report if anything is found, but at the moment I'm working on another project, so it would have to wait. But I think if there was anything nefarious going on, that it would be spotted by some devs ?

But true - what could we do if the official software was in fact changed containing something most people would not approve of. I hope it never comes to that..