Security of the plugins

Okay, thanks. I imagine you’re referring to this from your link (which I’ve seen already, along with the ‘safety’ tab):

Due to technical reasons with our platform, we’re unable to restrict plugins to a specific permission or access level. Since we offer Obsidian for free, currently we’re unable to manually review each plugin.

The good news is that Obsidian has an amazing and passionate community, so we rely on community trust to ensure security of community plugins.

I came to Obsidian, and this forum, for that amazing community. But I respectfully, and politely, disagree that trust is the solution to security.

Please understand, that I get that the app is free. I hope you also understand that not everyone who is using Obsidian is here just because it’s free. Personally I came because I’d heard about that amazing community, from SweetSetup and others, and thought it was a neat solution. My disappointment in the security gaps is therefore coming from a place of loving the Obsidian concept, not a place of trying to be difficult.

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