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This is a concern and risk that has realised itself multiple times over the past decades. There have been multiple stories linked to multiple developers in the past.

If you publish to any closed platform including ios, mac, win, android, this is the risk you run and a condition of operating you will need to accept.



For open source user space programs, another option is to just not sign your software. Will annoy your users, some of which will annoy you in turn, but many are already trained to ignore the scary warnings Windows shows in that case and more will continue to be trained until more reasonable options exist.




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