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		GrayShade 11 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers Who protects you when the packagers decide to trust a shady CA (adding it to the root store) because it's used by the distro's infra?

account42 11 days ago [–]

Is this supposed to be some kind of gotcha argument? Against what?

GrayShade 11 days ago | [–]

Not exactly the same thing, but see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat#Additional_security....

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