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Wait, what did Bitwarden do?
https://github.com/bitwarden/desktop/issues/552 Downloads and execs unexamined code released by the devs, potentially backdooring your whole machine solarwinds-style. It also divulges to MSFT (GitHub admins) all the IPs of Bitwarden users (even ones using a selfhosted API).
The rise of user-hostile software
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Re: The rise of user-hostile software
#302Agreed on all points. Interesting to see this: > You can argue that all of this has existed for a very long time, back from the days of all kinds of toolbars and extensions that created multiple levels of address bar nesting in your web browser and taskbar. What I find ironic about the whole situation is, back then it was universally known that those toolbars and extensions are distributed by assholes. The whole soft…
> back then it was universally known that those toolbars and extensions are distributed by assholes. Clearly not the case or they wouldn't have been as ubiquitous as they were.
Re: The rise of user-hostile software
#303Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://github.com/bitwarden/desktop/issues/552 Downloads and execs unexamined code released by the devs, potentially backdooring your whole machine solarwinds-style. It also divulges to MSFT (GitHub admins) all the IPs of Bitwarden users (even ones using a selfhosted API).
Isn't this true for any app that has updates though?
This is how the solarwinds hack happened.