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> they may host malicious versions of the KiCad software for download

Imagine someone using this as an attack vector to smuggle in exfiltration appliances in the form of hardware circuits in the KiCad software itself, so that the generated PCB files contain spyware in hardware form.

That would be a first of its kind: Supply chain attack at hardware level.

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