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“Hasn’t happened” is quite naive. It happens internally - putting unscrupulous code in a company’s distro before torching the place is a surprisingly regular o
by MomsAVoxell 6mo ago
“Hasn’t happened” is quite naive. It happens internally - putting unscrupulous code in a company’s distro before torching the place is a surprisingly regular occurrence in places which have long since adopted Debian as a platform host. IT departments around the globe will benefit from this immensely.
- PunchyHamster 6mo agoAnd reproducible builds do not prevent that. The one single fail point they prevent is infected build hosts. That might be some reasonable benefit for the company if it is building it on public architecture, but for projects like Debian that insist build hosts are basically offline (package in, package out with no internet access during build process) it is very fringe benefit.
- MomsAVoxell 6mo agoNonsense, of course reproducible builds can be used by IT departments to catch nefarious behavior - they regularly do.