But the truth is you don't really need to do that. If people are coming to your own domain you can ship them whatever you want. I'd wager that well below 1/1,000,000 users actually verify signatures on binaries. For the huge majority of users, there is little you can do to prevent this.

did not try/verify though

The network can't do it if it is downloaded over TLS. A malicious host can already ship evil scripts. Malware on the local machine can already do worse that edit a script.

>Malware on the local machine can already do worse that edit a script.

Malware on the local machine may not have root rights. You're basically arguing that privilege escalation isnt a real threat.