XZ Utils backdoor
tukaani.org

They haven’t particularly made a comment on the situation so much as acknowledged it’s happening. They seem to be going with the story that they had nothing to do with it and this is news to them. Hope to hear more from them soon so we can find out more about the situation, how and why this happened, etc.

(The sceptical tone isn’t because of disbelief of Collin, it’s because we don’t know enough about the situation to be able to say Collin is or isn’t telling the truth here.)

  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    4 months ago

    You only said 2 things:

    • we shouldn’t rely on free software made by free labor, and we need to say goodbye to some 60-70% or more of the software we use
    • important software shouldn’t reuse code already made, they should reinvent the wheel and in the process introduce unique vulnerabilities and spend orders of magnitude more time doing that

    None of these make sense in my opinion

    • abbenm@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      we shouldn’t rely on free software made by free labor, and we need to say goodbye to some 60-70% or more of the software we use

      Again I’m just reading along, and as a person who cares about, you know, the principle of charity, I don’t see how you can possibly think that’s the most charitable interpretation of what they said. I took them to mean we should do what we can to ensure these projects have financial resources to continue, not that we should “say goodbye” to them.

      And here’s the crazy thing: I’m not even saying I agree. I just think it’s possible to address a face value version of what they’re talking about without taking unnecessary cheap shots.

      • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I took them to mean we should do what we can to ensure these projects have financial resources to continue, not that we should “say goodbye” to them.

        They have said this:

        Something as critical as OpenSSH should be (and possibly is) funded by the users and also NOT use third party libs because it’s dangerous, as this incidence showed.

        Emphasis mine.

      • Christian@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        3 months ago

        But being charitable to the person you’re responding to, they twice said explicitly that they didn’t understand what was being said and asked for elaboration and both times got a reply that more or less suggested that they didn’t understand because they’re illiterate. At some point the reaction becomes understandable.

        edit: different poster from the first two, but I think they were sympathizing with the other person

    • eveninghere@beehaw.org
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      4 months ago

      I was talking about third party dependencies, which you missed. It’s fair to say that was my poor writing, but my point still stands.