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Re:JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised by tunesmith on Sunday December 15, 2019 @07:02PM (#21799844)
In a practical sense, how could JetBrains' software compromise security? People don't generally deploy build artifacts built from IDEs. And I suppose you could turn on a network monitoring tool to see if JetBrains software is broadcasting anything.
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Re:JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised by SmirkingRevenge on Sunday December 15, 2019 @07:22PM (#21799923)
Access to developer workstations (and all their permissions) is desirable on its own, even if you aren't modifying the specific projects they are working on.

Telemetry features (on by default) can/could be used to obfuscate nefarious network chatter.

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