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xeromal
1mo ago
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Yup, the only way to combat this as a smalltime dev would be to turn off auto updates and make people build from source.
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m-schuetz
1mo ago
Why woul building from source be safer? Are you veting every single line of third-party source code you compile and use?
g-b-r
1mo ago
You're sure not vetting
any
byte of an executable, so building from source
is
safer.
m-schuetz
1mo ago
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.
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tjwebbnorfolk
1mo ago
yea `curl <url> | gcc` is much safer...
trympet
1mo ago
Security through ..rarity? Maybe not for nation state actors though.
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