I’m in the same boat. I think its a legit reason for someone to avoid nix unfortunately. Do you know of any efforts to mitigate this? Besides having reviews …
I don’t see how it would happen. Nix is immune bc hashes are constantly checked, you can’t swap in malicious code without a person noticing bc it might throw a mismatched hash error. Also nixpkgs has been really good about vetting packages, I don’t expect them to look too closely into the source codes of everything but if something malicious were to happen like what is happening to AUR someone would see it way faster
As a nix user, I wouldn’t laugh. We are vulnerable to this type of attack as well.
Heck, it’s surprising we aren’t full of malware considering how many packages there are, and an easy supply chain attack vector with auto RyanTM PRs.
I’m in the same boat. I think its a legit reason for someone to avoid nix unfortunately. Do you know of any efforts to mitigate this? Besides having reviews …
Yea. especially if you use flakes heavily. It’s so decentralized it could take longer to catch.
I don’t see how it would happen. Nix is immune bc hashes are constantly checked, you can’t swap in malicious code without a person noticing bc it might throw a mismatched hash error. Also nixpkgs has been really good about vetting packages, I don’t expect them to look too closely into the source codes of everything but if something malicious were to happen like what is happening to AUR someone would see it way faster
It’s 2005 and “you can’t get viruses on
MacNix” advertising is playing all over again