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by lstamour 2312 days ago
The paranoid in me says there’s no point in installing the web store version unless you download and inspect /it/. The source code published isn’t necessarily the version distributed, though obviously injecting code in the CI pipeline would be... excessive. This goes back to the trusting trust problem. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/01/countering_tr... If someone managed to skip an exploit into a release of webpack, well, there goes the Internet ;-)