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Hold the entire world's technology industry hostage. Nice multi-billion dollar business you got there, be a real shame if somebody started introducing subtly-b
by ForHackernews 4y ago
Hold the entire world's technology industry hostage.
Nice multi-billion dollar business you got there, be a real shame if somebody started introducing subtly-breaking bugs into that critical library you use, wouldn't it?
- kanzure 4y agoWell, extortion and blackmail isn't exactly a way of further legitimizing open-source software development.
- ForHackernews 4y agoWorks for the copyright industry, doesn't it?
- voakbasda 4y agoWhat exactly do you think the legal process accomplishes, when you have a bad actor with deep pockets that sues people that do not have equal means to defend themselves?
- nateb2022 4y agoI can guarantee you that the Big Tech that does use open source takes a number of measures against this. They usually maintain a fork against the upstream repository, for one. There is no case where you could commit code to an open source library and immediately have it affect any Big Tech code.
- ForHackernews 4y agoHaha, c'mon now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/random_number_b.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/random_number... I can keep going. The notion that big tech has the time or inclination to rigorously audit all the free software they're using is absolutely laughable.