Not discrediting Open Source Software, but nothing is 100% safe.

  • TurretCorruption
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    32 years ago

    Very true. There was an issue in one of the linix communities a while where someone got away with submitting malicious code. It was eventuslly discovered and corrected, but it does go to show that bad actors can do some serious damage to open source projects.

    • CyclohexaneM
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      82 years ago

      Although this is fair, those contributors were from a research group from a prestigious university. That makes them much more trustworthy by default, and its natural that a code reviewer will give them more benefit of doubt.

      • Dioxy
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        22 years ago

        I remember this, wasn’t this a complete shitshow in the news?