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Arch Linux Users at Risk Again as AUR Hit by Another RAT
(news.itsfoss.com)
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this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2025
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I feel like these headlines are designed to be way scarier than the scenarios actually are to people that don't know much about Arch Linux.
I think it's a good thing to frighten users just a little bit. Arch is no longer a niche distro and it was only a matter of time before someone took advantage of the generally unvetted AUR. It's a wake-up call that the times of good faith are gone and you need to pay attention.
Instead of someone accidentally ruining your pc, they intentionally ruin your pc!
Just tell them to read the arch wiki page on AUR and take it seriously, IMO
Seriously. It's technically true that there was a RAT on the AUR but the way it's titled is written to intentionally invoke times where it was more than one thing.
Just standard clickbait, but sounds more serious because we understand the extent to which they're going out of their way to bend and withhold the facts.
true and part of me suspects that it's intentional on the part of arch users so that they can continue to tell the world that they "use arch btw" lol