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I 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 repos

by nateb2022 4y ago

I 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 ago
Haha, 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.