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Do you only use software by people you know? At some point there has to be an element of trust when you run software you downloaded over the Internet. If a smal
by JimDabell 3y ago
Do you only use software by people you know? At some point there has to be an element of trust when you run software you downloaded over the Internet. If a small utility maintained by a well-known member of the developer community doesn’t qualify for that trust, then I think that rules out an awful lot of software that all of us here probably use on a day to day basis. This is not an extraordinary level of risk.
- ftxbro 3y ago> "well-known member of the developer community" OK sorry I didn't know them. I mean I usually use software that came with my computer or ones that I apt-install from the official ubuntu distribution. I know it's not perfect security but at least it's more than a hacker news link to a github pip. If I had to use other ones then it's usually from people I know.