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Less is safer: How Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks

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429 points saeedesmaili | 1 comments | 19 Sep 25 22:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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system7rocks ◴[19 Sep 25 23:16 UTC] No.45307929[source]▶
I’ve been using other apps than Obsidian for notes and sharing, so this is nice to read and consider. But isn’t Obsidian an electron app or whatever? Electron has always seemed resource intensive and not native. JavaScript has never struck me as “secure”. Am I just out of touch?
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1. dghlsakjg ◴[19 Sep 25 23:33 UTC] No.45308069[source]▶
Javascript is probably one of the most used, depending on how you measure it, languages on earth.

It runs on a majority of computers and basically all phones. There will be many security issues that get discovered b y virtue of these facts.

What makes you think that "native" apps are any more secure?