Security through insecurity
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2026
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Though, Linux being open source helps a lot
Doesn't work like this.
Anyone catch that hilarious LLM exchange on aur-general mailing list over the weekend?
E: found it
Well that's fun. Odd someone named Campbell asking was for a tomato soup recipe, you'd think that would just be built into their bloodline or something.
While I'm glad no JS package managers were hurt to make the soup, I do wish the recipe didn't waste so much water.
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Me!!!!
But I'm actually safe: Last month I fried half of my BTRFS array, and decided that instead of recovering the system, I'd rather copy over the relevant data and reinstall Arch from scratch. In doing so, I've shed the majority of AUR packages that my old system had. Of the handful of AUR packages on my new system, none were attacked.
Hi there π
Don't have installed much from the AUR though.
Custom OS that no one else has access to. It might be full of exploits and bugs, but only you would know that. π
My eyes, I look at AUR packages before building them, as any real arch user does. AFAIK, antivirus programs would do the same to compiled binaries, looking for suspicious things and blocking if it finds something.
The unsandboxed package model was only ever safe in its original conception - with organizationally trusted and cryptographically enforced maintainer model. Remove the maintainer/developer trust requirement and you need a sandbox in order to prevent malware having root access on your system. Tis why mobile apps were sandboxed on Android and iOS from the get go.
Never use things like yay, just read the PKGBUILD and run makepkg. AUR wasn't meant to be automated. But it's better to use Flatpak, because it provides sandboxing (not for every app, but it can be reviewed before installation).
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Use the AUR, have an antivirus, no infected packages. However I was thinking of switching to https://chimera-linux.org/ before the infected packages went out.
So... rkhunter?