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And that's as a dev. Then we expect uses to know better than e.g. to trust links to .sh style installers some FOSS suggests...


> Then we expect uses to know better than e.g. to trust links to .sh style installers some FOSS suggests...

I don't know anyone that inspects every binary yet we apparently we should not trust shell scripts?


I know many who only use binaries from trusted sources, that do monitoring, provide certificates and checksums, and so on - and run them in an OS sandbox too when they install them.

So there's that




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