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Re:Transfer.sh – Easy file sharing from the command line by peakaboo on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @01:37AM (#27744553)
This is a great way to make sure there are no alternatives to Magic Wormhole. If this attitude was common in web browsers, we would only have one software of its kind in every category. No choice for users whatsoever.
Re:Transfer.sh – Easy file sharing from the command line by tptacek on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @01:48AM (#27744605)
What's a good way to make sure of it? Not having any opinion of it, because I haven't looked at it?

There are a lot of alternatives to Magic Wormhole. Unfortunately, most of them are pretty sketchy. One thing I can say about Magic Wormhole: it's not sketchy.

Re:Transfer.sh – Easy file sharing from the command line by teawrecks on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @11:32AM (#27749903)
This sounds like a slippery slope. No one is saying not to try anything else, they're saying to make sure and use stuff that is more likely to be safe. In the case of web browsers, we do only use like 4 or 5 out of thousands.