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March 7, 2025

how to gain code execution on millions of people and hundreds of popular apps

Friday, March 07, 2025 Teklinks

this started when i was looking into cursor, an ai text editor. also, i use lulu by objective-see on my laptop, so when i downloaded the cursor installer, i got this pop-up. now, what the hell is todesktop? i thought i was downloading cursor? well, looking at their website, they seem to be an electron app bundler service alongside providing a SDK for electron apps. so it appears the installer i downloaded is actually managed by todesktop, not cursor.

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