I'm still amazed by the xz utils backdoor. Some dude worked himself up the open-source chain by filing issues and fixing bugs across projects before creating multiple personas to take over a widely-used but under-maintained project, then slowly injecting malicious code, all of this over a period of 2 years. I wonder what other FOSS projects are being targeted right now without anyone realizing.
>>108490740>china hacked FOSSwow, in other news, watter is wet.
>>108490740If you're using Python or any Python projects, really, you could as well share your entire unencrypted hard drive to the world.90% of all libs there are pozzed.
>suspicious CPU spikes
>>108490740Eh no longer relevant unless you are a luddite, I literally fully stopped using FOSS, I just vibe code whatever I need tiwh Claude nowadays.
>>108490740Really just shows that the backdoor schizos are right.
>>108490740And it all came crashing down because one extremely autistic guy's routine was microscopically disrupted, it really was load bearing autism.
>>108491109get squatted on
>>108491333Thus is the beauty of open source.You really think your microscopicshaft wangbl0ws is more secure without the watchful eyes of autists?
>>108491361Funny enough the guy that caught the backdoor was a Microsoft employee at the time.
>>108491337you lost
>>108490740So OP is basically saying that only reason nothing bad happened was because the project was FOSS. If it would have been non-free and proprietary, whole world would be fucked.
>>108491516No, why?
>>108490778>China It literally was israelis
>>108491516It was both caused *and* averted because it's FOSS, I believe in a private company this kind of contribution would be much easier to detect.
>>108493832it was russians, israelis wouldnt need access they already have it
>>108494583Depends on the company.
