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The Internet Gods, 2018:
Security! Security! SSL everywhere! Mandatory two-factor authentication! Full-device encryption! Hardware on-chip secure enclaves!
The Internet Gods, also 2018:
let's just give Jeff Bezos all our private RAM, and the official Node.js installer is literally curl | sudo bash
@natecull It's been more or less "just download this crap from the internet and run whatever code it has" since the beginning of the times, so node.js just made it obvious. (Weren't RPM or deb packages signed? Well, yes, but... you know the story.)
@pony apt secure makes sure the file hasn't been modified since it was uploaded. Https just secures bytes in transit. Also there's only one organization to trust unlike the hundreds of certificate authorities
