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

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421 points saeedesmaili | 2 comments | 19 Sep 25 22:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.398s | 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. SilverSlash ◴[20 Sep 25 03:36 UTC] No.45310096[source]▶
Javascript is a lot more secure than C++, since it's a memory managed language.
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2. otabdeveloper4 ◴[20 Sep 25 06:39 UTC] No.45311009[source]▶
Buffer overflows are 0.001 percent of security incidents in practice.

Let's fix private key leakage and supply chain issues before worrying about C++ haxxors p0wning your machines.