About a week ago, I uninstalled Node from my laptop, which felt great. :)
I'm trying to do all work in dev containers (or other sandboxes), limiting the blast radius if I'm unlucky enough to be hit by an exploit. The attackers may get a Claude token, but they won't easily be able to escape the container and scan my home dir.
Cooldowns and allow-listing of installer scripts are good additions to layered security, especially for CI. However, I think the fundamental thing that needs to change is the OS permissions model. The default of trusting third-party software with everything your user has access is no longer workable.
I'm trying to do all work in dev containers (or other sandboxes), limiting the blast radius if I'm unlucky enough to be hit by an exploit. The attackers may get a Claude token, but they won't easily be able to escape the container and scan my home dir.
Cooldowns and allow-listing of installer scripts are good additions to layered security, especially for CI. However, I think the fundamental thing that needs to change is the OS permissions model. The default of trusting third-party software with everything your user has access is no longer workable.