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by 4gotunameagain 332 days ago
I did not by any means want to discourage you from developing things and sharing them, if anything I thank you for that.

My intention was to highlight that the SW supply chain nowadays is an insecure mess.

Regarding your last point, for the vast majority of open source SW releases, we can never be sure if the release we get is produced from the same code we see. I do not know if that is the case with VScode addons, but you get my point

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> Regarding your last point, for the vast majority of open source SW releases, we can never be sure if the release we get is produced from the same code we see. I do not know if that is the case with VScode addons, but you get my point

You actually can depackage vscode's .vsix files (it is just a zip file) and compare the package contents to the repository.

Yes but realistically, who is going to do that ?

Again, I am not questioning your integrity or your plugin.