Serious take: fuck them for endangering their users like that!
This should have business ending, as well as personal consequences for the company and people involved.
There's very real potential for people getting seriously harmed by this 🤬
Nice, if there's ever a democratic president again, let's use that precedent to completely fuck Texas and the other theocracies when they try to make bible shit into law again
At this rate we'll soon have a decentralized para-religious terrorist organization full of brainlets that got scared shitless after discovering Roko's Basilisk and are now doing the cyber lord's bidding in order to not get punished once AGI arrives
Nah not really...most of the time I'm at least doing a light metadata check, like who's the maintainer & main contributors, any trusted folks have starred the repo, how active is development and release frequency, search issues with "vulnerability"/"cve" see how contributors communicate on those, previous cve track record.
With real code audits... I could only ever be using a handful of programs, let alone the thought of me fully auditing the whole linux kernel before I trust it 😄
Focusing on "mission critical" apps feels pretty useless imho, because it doesn't really matter which of the thousands of programs on your system executes malicious code, no?
Like sure, the app you use for handling super sensitive data might be secure and audited...then you get fucked by some obscure compression library silently loaded by a bunch of your programs.
I visited Jerusalem in 2019, not knowing about this event...got trapped in the old town when riot police cordoned off the muslim quarters.
Got to experience a tiny glimpse of Palestinian reality in the West Bank, which was quite eye opening for me as a german
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