Kid@sh.itjust.worksM to Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 days agoVSCode extensions with 9 million installs pulled over security riskswww.bleepingcomputer.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up150arrow-down10cross-posted to: vscode@programming.devasklemmy@lemmy.ml
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minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoThat sounds incredibly easy to enforce, why didn’t they?
minus-squaremerthyr1831@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·17 hours agoBecause people will do the work for them, so why enforce their TOS when they can just say YMMV and have absolutely zero liability if someone’s extension sells your corporate code to the dark web
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-217 hours agoYou can still have zero liability with a simple automated check. A theme is just JSON, so if it’s in the theme category, run it through a JSON parser. That would take a bad developer a day to do.
minus-squareVendetta9076@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoBecause Microsoft hates you
That sounds incredibly easy to enforce, why didn’t they?
Because people will do the work for them, so why enforce their TOS when they can just say YMMV and have absolutely zero liability if someone’s extension sells your corporate code to the dark web
You can still have zero liability with a simple automated check. A theme is just JSON, so if it’s in the theme category, run it through a JSON parser.
That would take a bad developer a day to do.
Because Microsoft hates you