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Yeah, Editor extensions are both auto-updated and installed in high risk dev environments. Quite a juicy target and I am surprised we haven’t seen large scale purchases by bad actors similar to browser extensions yet. However, I remember reading that the VsCode team puts a lot of effort in catching malware. But do all editors (with auto-updates) such as Sublime have such checks?


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