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Actually things are working quite well! These events remain remarkable news items. There are tremendous benefits to having an ecosystem built on trust and mutua
by ahelwer 5y ago
Actually things are working quite well! These events remain remarkable news items. There are tremendous benefits to having an ecosystem built on trust and mutual assumption of good will. Transforming this into a scar tissue bureaucracy after some minor cuts is only one of several options. Another is to make choices like this so socially radioactive that only people with nothing to lose would ever make them. Trust is very valuable.
- scotty79 5y agoSystems are not working well. They are just working carelessly till the catastrophy. leftpad.js wasn't even malicious action. Just one developer withdrawing his code from the community. Imagine what would happen if one dev of popular package just had a nervous breakdown and did rm -fr / on his next update. Or delete the contents of the repo it is a dependancy of and do a force push. We have zero systems in place that could catch it before work of thousands of people is destroyed.
- genocidicbunny 5y agoOr worse, deploys something far more insidious. A keylogger that quietly sucks up your credentials for example.