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𝗧𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 *𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability

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Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability

www.404media.co

𝗧𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 *𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago
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The Xz backdoor and a near miss on the F-Droid app store show how the entitled attitude of some people in the open source community can be used to push malicious or insecure code.
  • @lewdian69@lemmy.world
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    You’re manually reviewing the entire code of every open source product you use? Manually reviewing the code at every commit of every open source software you use?

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      Nope, I’m just a clown who doesn’t actually work in tech.

      • @lewdian69@lemmy.world
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        1•1 year ago

        I forgot it wasn’t any of my business to ask. My bad

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