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Still, downloading and executing code can be guarded by trusted signatures, as used by deb etc. You can protect such an "import" statement by restricting it to
by radarsat1 6y ago
Still, downloading and executing code can be guarded by trusted signatures, as used by deb etc. You can protect such an "import" statement by restricting it to signed files, at the very least. That allows you to "trust" a source without reading every line of it. Not infallible, but much better than "download and run this thing from some obfuscated URL and assume it hasn't been hijacked"