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Sorry if it does not fit your business model, but in my opinion, it would be plainly stupid for anyone to download and run on his machine or server a closed source binary, especially when the goal is to give remote access through internet. And so that it is expected that this binary will open a direct pipe with the internet...

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Literally any pre-compiled binary could do nefarious things... why make a big deal out of this one?

First, because if you are on a Linux distribution, you will tend to only take binaries from trusted sources like distribution repos that are imperfect but still audited and work on having reproducible builds.

Second because you can usually contained a closed source binary, let's say 'zoom' for example, but here the root goal is to open a pipe to the internet and give access to the console or local network, so it will be hard to check what it does and constrain it in normal operations.

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