[sbarre]

> opening a folder in vscode shouldn't be dangerous.

You're not "opening a folder" though, you're opening a codebase in an IDE, with all the integrations and automations that implies, including running code.

As a developer it's important to understand the context in which you're operating.

If you just want to "open a folder" and browse the contents, that's literally what Restricted mode is for. What you're asking to do is already there.

[rsyring]

I've been using VS Code for many years and I try pretty hard to be a security aware dev.

I checkout all code projects into ~/projects. I don't recall ever seeing a trust/restricted dialogue box. But, I'm guessing, at some point in the distant past, I whitelisted that folder and everything under it.

I've only just now, reading through this thread, realized how problematic that is. :o/