Comment by emmelaich

8 days ago

Some targets are more valuable than others. A firewall product has obvious security value. The fact that it requires high privilege is another reason.

I have the same thoughts about other Mac apps. e.g. iTerm2 - cause they "see" so much sensitive data.

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  • Yeah just yolo install whatever, it’s not like applications or libraries such as axios which have a decade of trusted history would all of a sudden become malicious and do nasty things to developer machines, just chill, everything’s fine.

    • > Yeah just yolo install whatever

      That's not even remotely what I said.

      > it’s not like applications or libraries such as axios

      iTerm doesn't use NPM. Little Snitch doesn't use NPM. I don't use NPM.

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