Comment by retsl

"For VS Code remote, the VS Code server is in the same trust boundary as the VS Code client. [...]

For Remote SSH: [...] A compromised remote could use the VS Code Remote connection to execute code on your local machine."

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/66...

I wrote about it in a bit more detail a month ago because it seems to be a common misunderstanding: "VS Code Remote Dev and Dev Containers are not security boundaries" https://lets.re/blog/vscode-remote-dev/