Technology

59599 readers

3282 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

1052

Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 month ago by moe90@feddit.nl to c/technology@lemmy.world

516 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think you understood their point.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

What did I miss?

[–] jas0n@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

In response to:

Moreover, the claim that they can harm the software is unwarranted because it is OPEN and many eyes are on it.

The xz attack was an intentional backdoor put into a project that was "OPEN and many eyes are on it." Also, it was discovered due to the way it was executing and not because someone found it in the source. The original assumption has been proven wrong.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, yep I didn't see that. Though definitely more eyes are on Linux than were on xz