Have you ever found a GitHub project or anything that seemed nice and tempting to install until you dug a bit deeper?
What are some red flags that should detur anyone from installing and running something?
Have you ever found a GitHub project or anything that seemed nice and tempting to install until you dug a bit deeper?
What are some red flags that should detur anyone from installing and running something?
it’s not the impact to the user having dozens of choices.
it’s the impact to the developer to having to maintain the packages for dozens of package repo admins that have each their own special requirements for packages that have to be followed. it’s a huge pita that most companies don’t even bother with and just run their own package repo.
IMO the user isn’t blameless when using an install script. anyone who just blindly runs arbitrary code without reading it is a fool asking to be attacked.