I’d like to see permissions in VSCode plugins, so e.g. I could see that a plugin x can’t touch the filesystem or internet and is therefore more likely to be benign.

“A group of Israeli researchers explored the security of the Visual Studio Code marketplace and managed to “infect” over 100 organizations by trojanizing a copy of the popular 'Dracula Official theme to include risky code. Further research into the VSCode Marketplace found thousands of extensions with millions of installs.”

Every time a company bitches that opening ““their”” devices to third party apps because “security” and “malware” I always think of shit like this.

The Google Play Store has tons of malware. iOS keeps it under wraps with their bullshit entry price and actually okay moderation, but are they a hundred and ten percent sure their signing key or database will never be exploited because there’s a mode on their devices to prevent zero-interaction malware because somehow an SMS being received ends up in the kernel.