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Who uses a download manager in the days of high speed internet access and, in general, cloud services?
I'm trying to imagine the kind of user that's both able to blindly install a random .deb downloaded from a website, while also being willing to do so. Linux geeks with no sense of danger on the internet?
Who uses a download manager in the days of high speed internet access and, in general, cloud services?
Hacker News is one of the last holdouts in the low bandwidth friendly website game.
Who uses a download manager in the days of high speed internet access and, in general, cloud services?
Who uses a download manager in the days of high speed internet access and, in general, cloud services?
It could give rise to a supply chain attack.
Who uses a download manager in the days of high speed internet access and, in general, cloud services?
Who uses a download manager in the days of high speed internet access and, in general, cloud services?
The more bandwidth you have (and use), the less adequate the little "downloads" pane in your browser is.
This wasn't packaged on any distro, so this isn't even a meaningful attack: Users had to go out of their way to install it from a foreign source. This is no different than if you downloaded a random .exe and ran it on Windows with admin access.
Its not a supply chain attack, its a PEBKAC attack.
Who uses a download manager in the days of high speed internet access and, in general, cloud services?
People who are still on dialup modems or very slow wireless ISPs with flaky connections. High Speed Internet is not universal even today, despite what web developers seem to think. Ever try to surf raw Facebook on a 128kbps wireless link? It's not fun. Cloud services are a joke for these people. Hacker News is one of the last holdouts in the low bandwidth friendly website game.