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How do you know what 'pre' means given that pseudo-anonymous identities are free and Tan is already suspected of having some (e.g. Hans Jansen and Jigar Kumar:
by iso8859-1 3y ago
How do you know what 'pre' means given that pseudo-anonymous identities are free and Tan is already suspected of having some (e.g. Hans Jansen and Jigar Kumar: https://research.swtch.com/xz-timeline https://research.swtch.com/xz-timeline)
- rwmj 3y agoI mean we go back before all possible sockpuppets. We do have a reasonably good idea of when the attempt started.
- glitchcrab 3y agoThe point that the person you replied to is trying to make is how do you know when the repo is clean? How can you ever be sure that someone hasn't introduced a backdoor at some point? It's bigger than just what has been discovered.
- rwmj 3y agoHow do you know anything has not been compromised? You go and look at the commits and the code. It's hard work with no easy answers despite what many think.
- rrr_oh_man 3y agoBy not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good-enough-for-now