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This is often called being "on the wrong side of the airtight hatch". If a program can write to ~/.local/bin, it can write to ~/.profile and change your path an

• tomxor 9y ago
  > If a program can write to ~/.local/bin, it can write to ~/.profile and change your path anyway You're absolutely right, but in the case that a program can write to ~/.local/bin but no where else, it is a concern. What I'm really talking about is when a package manager is using that directory and potentially untrustworthy packages can put whatever they want in ~/.local/bin but not ~