Ask HN: How do you deal with the fear of installing potentially risky tools?
There are some open-source tools—popular and widely used—that I’m honestly a bit scared to run on my work laptop (since it has access to credentials, production servers, etc.). For example, I always feel a little nervous about installing something like k9s.This all started after the xz backdoor incident. Since then, I can’t shake the thought that if I install the wrong thing, it could mess...