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>I remember the good old days when people were actually trusted to do their own research before downloading a potentially dangerous exe. Is there any evidence that was ever really a thing / effective? How could you possibly know? There are plenty of examples of previously trustworthy software becoming untrustworthy, same with sites you download the code from. That line reads like the absurd advice that security exper…
> absurd advice that security experts put out about "only download something you trust" This is mostly a meme from the overzealous FOSS and privacy crowd, not the security crowd. Professional security engineers do not, as a rule, encourage software engineers (or end users more generally) to only use open source software because "you can inspect the code for vulnerabilities." Anyone with legitimate security expertise…
I intended it to just be a comparison of the "only download something you trust" absurd advice you get from "security" people you see on TV or something... and what the user was suggesting about the old days.
My FOSS comment was really meant to reflect the absolute rabbit hole you go down when it is suggested people can simply protect themselves. It's never ending flow of tasks and things you need to know that I don't think anyone can do ...