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frik on March 3, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Downloading Software Safely Is Nearly Impossible

I prefer to search on Wikipedia, it has a link to the official website in a predictable way.

e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PuTTY points to Putty's official website: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty

Putty is open source (MIT), one could build it from source and even audit the code. Nevertheless, thanks for pointing it out.

endersshadow on March 3, 2014 | [–]

DuckDuckGo also flags results as "Official Site," which is derived from Wikipedia, as you can see here: https://duckduckgo.com/PuTTY

whoopdedo on March 3, 2014 | | [–]

But not if you go to https://duckduckgo.com/putty

shalmanese on March 3, 2014 | [–]

Do you first check the history to make sure that nobody has inserted a malicious edit right before you visited the page?

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