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> At least some of Jetbrains' offerings are open source. If you have security concerns, you may be able to alleviate some of them by your own examination. Goo
by SmirkingRevenge 7y ago
> At least some of Jetbrains' offerings are open source. If you have security concerns, you may be able to alleviate some of them by your own examination.
Good points
> I'd also encourage you to consider separating your concerns about the Russian government and individuals living in Russia, just as you might other governments and their citizenry.
I do separate them, in a moral sense. But in a practical sense, Russian companies can't really be separated from their authoritarian government. What can they do to resist? There are no checks and balances. To be fair, Jetbrains was probably even around before Russia even started to settle definitively into its current authoritarian predicament. But thanks to the Putin regime, how on earth can they be trusted?
- tunesmith 7y agoIn a practical sense, how could JetBrains' software compromise security? People don't generally deploy build artifacts built from IDEs. And I suppose you could turn on a network monitoring tool to see if JetBrains software is broadcasting anything.
- SmirkingRevenge 7y agoAccess to developer workstations (and all their permissions) is desirable on its own, even if you aren't modifying the specific projects they are working on. Telemetry features (on by default) can/could be used to obfuscate nefarious network chatter.