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Re:Transmission BitTorrent app contained malware by Philipp__ on Sunday March 06, 2016 @06:53PM (#11236245)
Oh dear god. Used 2.90 past week, when I saw the news I updated immediately, checked for all the files, found nothing. I hope my MacBook will stay fine tomorrow. I got it backed up on Time Machine anyway. Where do we go from here, since I lost the trust, what are the alternatives? And from now one, I'll go with Brew Cask for everything possible.

F* GUI /s

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Re:Transmission BitTorrent app contained malware by kazazes on Sunday March 06, 2016 @07:04PM (#11236285)
Would brew cask have helped you here? It doesn't build from source, it just downloads a precompiled binary.
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Re:Transmission BitTorrent app contained malware by adidalal on Sunday March 06, 2016 @09:30PM (#11236721)
In this case, yes, as it verifies the download against a (best-effort) known-good checksum. It's not a perfect system, but did work out in this case.

GPG verification where available and refusing to install Casks without a checksum is also in the pipeline.

(I'm one of the maintainers of Homebrew Cask)

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