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Thanks! Automatic updates are still possible; you can implement a code signing-based flow on top of this, or fetch hashes from GitHub releases, or anything, really. Attacks are only possible during setup, and targeting at that point in time is difficult because the client won't have authenticated yet. Anything else (attacks that rely on clearing the local state) can be mitigated using careful UI design.


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