New comment by throwaway202407 in "Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packages without consent"

throwaway202407 — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 12:14:26 +0000

This was also documented here, nearly 1-year ago:

Where there is a VSCode theme importer for Zed.

And what it does is silently install a Home Brew package and attempt to execute it on your machine.

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