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If someone's determined, they can always create a legit looking GitHub account, submit a few PRs (they did, in this case), gain trust, and _then_ deliver the ma
by Ayesh 8y ago
If someone's determined, they can always create a legit looking GitHub account, submit a few PRs (they did, in this case), gain trust, and _then_ deliver the malicious code. It just takes time.
But this trust part seems to work pretty well. You need to be trusted to be a Debian package manager, and I volunteer as a Drupal code review admin where we require all contributors to have a real name, and there is a back and forth discussion for a few days until we mark the user as vetted.