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		lmm on Jan 14, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On the state of Windows on the desktop >And you don't have to install anything. I chuck it all in c:\windows and it's available in PATH then. You think copying random files from the internet into system directories with no tracking, no upgrade management, no uninstall capability is a good thing?

meaty on Jan 14, 2013 | [–]

It's not a particularly great thing, but it's "good enough" for your average single shot laptop.

If it was a corporate machine, we'd package it and deploy it via GPO.

marshray on Jan 15, 2013 | [–]

No, it's secure. All you have do is first download a random GPG exe from the internet and check the .sig using the PGP key supplied with PuTTY :-)

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