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Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability

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The Xz backdoor and a near miss on the F-Droid app store show how the entitled attitude of some people in the open source community can be used to push malicious or insecure code.

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There’s always been FUD around OSS, this is just a fresh wave of it since the xz thing got quite a bit of publicity.

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