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OP. Of course if there's trusted parties along the way it's safe enough. But it is not durable to that trust being broken. e.g. if the user has learned to do this, and ends up through typo squatting on a malevolent fork of their code.

If it's okay on GH, we train the user to think it's okay on less secure sites.



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