• asudox@lemmy.world
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          8 months ago

          Crates is insecure

          And? You are literally installing someone else’s code. The compiler isn’t an AV. This is true for all langs.

          piping curl to bash for installing rust Dev tools

          How is it any different than installing binaries from the site and just pulling the binary via curl? The bash script is also visible to anyone, feel free to check it for anything that might be malicious.

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            8 months ago

            Trust is a thing. We should trust the person writing our dependencies and be able to verify that it was published by them, and not somebody in the middle maliciously altering the code.

            You should not be installing unsigned binaries from a website. Either use a package manager that checks for signatures or manually check the signatures yourself. If the project doesn’t sign their releases, open a bug report.

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      8 months ago

      Can you elaborate?

      I was under the impression that there was some kind of consensus around rust being one of the safest languages to use. However, I’ve seen comments about rust being bad pop up in a few threads lately but they never explain why they think so.

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        8 months ago

        You’re talking about using the language and preventing errors. That’s less about security and more about preventing errors.

        I’m talking about the supply chain, watering hole attacks, etc. Crates does not cryptographically verify the authenticity or anything that it downloads.

        The only language that I’m aware of that has a dependency manager that has cryptographic auth of everything it downloads is Java’s Maven. Everything else is vulnerable, rust included.