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BarHocker@discuss.tchncs.de to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 19 days ago

Kind and cherished FOSS and computing freedom advocate @sleepyowl (Joyce Ng) has gone missing

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Kind and cherished FOSS and computing freedom advocate @sleepyowl (Joyce Ng) has gone missing

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BarHocker@discuss.tchncs.de to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 19 days ago
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Her blog post: https://bitowl.online/about Link to the post in the screenshot: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116249815879392312

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    This is why they’re infiltrating open source projects

    Are they infiltrating open source projects too now?

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      Ever since the invention of open source. Even industry standards such as the original RSA were intentionally ratfucked by malicious state actors.

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      The XZ thing was almost certainly some nation state actor, imo.

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        Whats the XZ thing? Im out of the loop

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          some rando gained the trust of the xz maintainer and tried to sneak in a very sophisticated backdoor. luckily caught, but i wonder if we had another project compromised and don’t even know about it.

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          If you have an hour, this video from Veritasium about it is pretty good.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ

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      Yes check the XZ Utils situation from like 2024

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