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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.
I can’t tell if you’re joking but if you are that’s hilarious
Oh shit I must’ve said something really dumb now.
(I wasn’t joking).
It’s not a dumb point so much as just naive – and its the lesson we learned from the xz backdoor.
Sure the source code is out there for anyone to see, but are the right people actually looking?