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Crates is insecure and, as pointed out above, so is piping curl to bash for installing rust Dev tools
Crates is insecure
And? You are literally installing someone else’s code. The compiler isn’t an AV. This is true for all langs.
piping curl to bash for installing rust Dev tools
How is it any different than installing binaries from the site and just pulling the binary via curl? The bash script is also visible to anyone, feel free to check it for anything that might be malicious.
Can you elaborate?
I was under the impression that there was some kind of consensus around rust being one of the safest languages to use. However, I’ve seen comments about rust being bad pop up in a few threads lately but they never explain why they think so.
You’re talking about using the language and preventing errors. That’s less about security and more about preventing errors.
I’m talking about the supply chain, watering hole attacks, etc. Crates does not cryptographically verify the authenticity or anything that it downloads.
The only language that I’m aware of that has a dependency manager that has cryptographic auth of everything it downloads is Java’s Maven. Everything else is vulnerable, rust included.
