Oh I guess I should totally put my confidence in random sketchy websites. Great point!
It literally doesn’t matter if it’s a publisher site or not, users can’t tell the difference and it normalizes clicking links from a web search and running whatever software download the user sees first.
It isn’t a random, sketchy or inherently untrustworthy site.
You shouldn’t have any issue explaining how you would go about verifying that a software repo is trustworthy and how that differs from verifying a website.
Unless you don’t actually know what you’re talking about…
It is hardly a random untrustworthy site, it is the software publishers site. There is no reason that a package repo can’t suffer a similar attack.
Your confidence is entirely misplaced.
Oh I guess I should totally put my confidence in random sketchy websites. Great point!
It literally doesn’t matter if it’s a publisher site or not, users can’t tell the difference and it normalizes clicking links from a web search and running whatever software download the user sees first.
Go on then, explain to me how the well known software publishers website is random and sketchy.
I feel like you’ve demonstrated very effectively how users lack the skills to understand what they are reading online 😂
It isn’t a random, sketchy or inherently untrustworthy site.
You shouldn’t have any issue explaining how you would go about verifying that a software repo is trustworthy and how that differs from verifying a website.
Unless you don’t actually know what you’re talking about…