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Whether or not you draw a distinction, it seems plausible that the world as a whole would draw a distinction between sharing encrypted messages with the NSA and
by hyperpape 3y ago
Whether or not you draw a distinction, it seems plausible that the world as a whole would draw a distinction between sharing encrypted messages with the NSA and deliberately injecting malware into widely distributed software. Corporations can look at the former and think it is unlikely to affect them.
So regardless of how bad its prior behavior is, it makes sense that Microsoft has more of a reason to try to keep software distributed through GitHub as secure as it reasonably can.
- peteradio 3y agoHow about they just put a checkbox in the settings (checked by default of course) to install the malware. If you have a problem with it you can navigate to the settings and uncheck the install malware box. Now of course you may need to check from time to time if the box has reverted back to its natural checked state because of some backend update.
- tsimionescu 3y agoStill, if the NSA wants to target a "rogue state" with malware through GitHub, they are much much more likely than not to comply. Even if it were ever discovered that they did so, and if it were ever widely publicized, it would not affect the majority of GitHub paying customers (which are US or EU companies, which by and large don't care if their geopolitical rivals are served malware).