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Is this safe?
Do I want to download my OS from someone nearby?
Neither the MacTrast nor the original 9to5 article discusses the security behind Apple's iOS implementation. But we know all firmware packages are signed and I would imagine this would be no different, with the recovery partition OS performing a check of the signature.