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submitted 2 days ago by halm@leminal.space to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

I haven't heard a peep about the security status of AUR since the headlines about malware injections into thousands of packages. I've ensured that none of my installed software is affected by the attack (to the best of my ability), but I've held off on my regular yay -Syu since then. What has you all done to keep your machine updated but clean?

And is there any update from AUR maintainers that the situation is under control? Most of my installed AUR packages simply don't exist in the official Arch repos, so if not I'd have to look for other sources.

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[-] Feyter@programming.dev 47 points 2 days ago

It's as safe as it always was and will be...

The concept of AUR is that you run other persons scripts on your device. That is by definition a very insecure thing to do.

[-] halm@leminal.space 1 points 1 day ago

The concept of AUR is that you run other persons scripts on your device. That is by definition a very insecure thing to do.

This boils it down fairly well, I think ๐Ÿ™‚

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