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Looking at the Github [0], it looks like a fairly alpha product targeted at technical people and has one contributor. I think giving the project some slack at this point seems reasonable. I guess if there is major concern about this, one could submit a PR?

[0]https://github.com/maruos/maruos

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The website is super polished and doesn't mention anything about being alpha quality. It would be easy to install this on your phone without any idea you were making yourself vulnerable.

It's version 0.4, so it's a pre-release build.

welllll, so are plenty of packages people install into production software every day. i think pre release means less to people these days.

and sure, you can blame it on the people using the software, but that doesn't stop a bunch of ssh servers with default credentials being open to the network.

Putty is 18 years old and only reached 0.69

Fair enough, but this project is slightly less than a year old[0], so let's give it the benefit of doubt.

[0] https://github.com/maruos/maruos/commits/master

super polished

My definition of super polished includes 'renders without javascript enabled'.

I tend to agree, but the non-technical user that might make themselves vulnerable by installing weird OSs on their phone (already a rare beast) will most likely not run without Javascript.

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