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Hm. You're right. I haven't. And I guess the entire problem is that we shouldn't just assume somebody else has.

The JSON manifest is a much smaller attack surface than uploading random binaries would be though. And the standardized build procedure should make it relatively easy to tell if something's out of the ordinary and should be raising eyebrows, or even automate much of it.

Maybe stick an `alias CheckFlatHub=` for a LLM prompt, or just some plain regexes, in `.bashrc`? Looking for fishing URLs and install commands sounds like a relatively simple problem, as far as security challenges go.




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