Homebrew was less vulnerable 10 years ago than npm is today, project lead tells us The Homebrew team has released version 6.0 of this popular open source package manager for macOS and Linux, with a new mechanism for trusting packages and support for sandboxing on Linux, to align with existing sandboxing on macOS. Homebrew 6.0 introduces tap trust , a tap being a collection of formulae, casks a package of pre compiled binaries and commands which usually reside in a Git repository. The tool...

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