Re:Microsoft AI Spying Scandal: Time to Rethink Privacy Stan...
by dcow on Thursday June 06, 2024 @12:24PM
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But `curl | sh` is no less secure. Download this file and execute it. Functionally the same outcome. Tell me how doing that is materially different than `apt get`. Both employ signing and checksums (just with different PKI). One delegates trust to a package maintainer while the other trusts the author directly. I truly don’t understand the paranoia and consider it tinfoil hat security theater.
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Re:Microsoft AI Spying Scandal: Time to Rethink Privacy Stan...
by tetris11 on Thursday June 06, 2024 @12:35PM
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the package maintainer has to go through a web of trust in their FOSS ecosystem to be allowed to distribute their packages.
A github author just has to put up a repo and hope that their fanbase aren't too versed in the language