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KidM to Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish • 4 months ago

VSCode extensions with 9 million installs pulled over security risks

www.bleepingcomputer.com

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VSCode extensions with 9 million installs pulled over security risks

www.bleepingcomputer.com

KidM to Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish • 4 months ago
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    2•4 months ago

    That sounds incredibly easy to enforce, why didn’t they?

    • @merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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      Because people will do the work for them, so why enforce their TOS when they can just say YMMV and have absolutely zero liability if someone’s extension sells your corporate code to the dark web

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        You can still have zero liability with a simple automated check. A theme is just JSON, so if it’s in the theme category, run it through a JSON parser.

        That would take a bad developer a day to do.

    • @Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works
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      Because Microsoft hates you

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