KidM to CybersecurityEnglish · 2 months agoVSCode extensions with 9 million installs pulled over security riskswww.bleepingcomputer.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up150arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up150arrow-down1external-linkVSCode extensions with 9 million installs pulled over security riskswww.bleepingcomputer.comKidM to CybersecurityEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square8fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tealinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThat sounds incredibly easy to enforce, why didn’t they?
minus-squaremerthyr1831@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months 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_tealinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 months 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.
That sounds incredibly easy to enforce, why didn’t they?
Because Microsoft hates you
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.