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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