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𝗧𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 *𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability

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Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability

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𝗧𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 *𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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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.
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    Unfortunately, that’s the social element of social engineering. Not all developers feel that way and it’s possible to trick them.

    Luckily, most developers are on the spectrum and aren’t affected as much by that type of social engineering.

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        I think most people who are “on the spectrum” are undiagnosed, this survey asked about diagnosed autism.

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          And that’s pretty close to the average in the population of 1 in 36, or 2.8%.

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        Completely a meme answer. IT workers including software devs in the past were seen as nerdy loner types

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