and this is why you must minimise and be extra careful with the extensions you install in your editor of choice.

Imagine a worm written in VimL or emacs lisp.

Haha, that would be kinda fun as an experiment :D

I'd love to see someone do it, even as a proof of concept.

Do you also not use SSH? Because that was also infected last year (XZ)

I use Debian Stable, and we didn't have the bug.