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🤣 should we get a list of foss projects that have had security issues? Or how about how someone slips some shit in upstream every few weeks it seems?
Stop this nonsense. You can hate Microsoft for legitimate reasons.
I mean... For real, I've never heard of Linux systems being hacked this way. I'm sure it's possible, but it certainly seems rarer.
Slipping shit in upstream also certainly doesn't happen "that* often. It takes effort to become recognised enough as a developer to be allowed access to the upstream code, meaning you can't automate those kinds of attacks. (I imagine. Correct me if I'm wrong.)
Absolute opposite. The majority of successful attacks you see today are identity management and supply chain attacks. If you walk into any OCIO office supply chain will be a top 3 concern.
I know of one successful supply chain attack in FOSS.
So still points for using it.
AUR has had multiple Trojans just this week
I'm sorry, Dave, but AUR does not count.
Precisely. The AUR is just a somewhat organized script dump. There's no release process, and any user can upload any script they want. If you're not capable of auditing scripts yourself, don't use the AUR, there's no expectation of quality or safety at all.
I... Don't understand what you said here 🫤
It does happen occasionally, from time to time, but, because everything is gasp open source, it tends to get caught, identified, blocked/quarantined and then fixed considerably more rapidly, with decent fallback instructions/procedures in that interim period.
Like apparently it actually just recently happened with some asshole uploading bs malware libs/sources to the AUR... even still, got caught pretty quickly.
Also, you can basically describe the entire CrowdStrike fiasco as exactly this kind of upstream oopsie doopsie.
Doesn't really matter in the big picture if it was intentionally malicious or not, when you Y2K 1/4 of the world's computer systems.
Exactly.
When there's a high profile bug in an important FOSS project, everyone and their dog is looking for a fix. Usually it'll be patched within days, if not hours, of being reported.
When there's a high profile bug in a closed size source project, the company backing it will deflect and delay until they're forced to fix it, and they can sometimes get away with it for years or even decades.
All software has bugs, which remain strategy do you prefer?
I mean, myself personally, I prefer to simp and fanboy for my favorite exploitative corperate overlord, because I'm sure there are good reasons everyone uses them, despite their well documented history of massive fuckups and fuckovers of all possible kinds!
/s
Microsoft is getting hacked every other week.
As well as FoSS projects.
Mate have a look at the SharePoint vulnerability. It's embarrassingly bad. Like really really bad, and btw so bad that it's very easy to understand and exploit. And prevent too, if a jr in my team did this I'd get them in trouble.
No no, you don't get it.
Random Windows 'Powerusers' obviously know more about programming and cybersecurity than people who actually do that for a living, as a professional line of work, duh!
See, I wrote a bash file once, so I basically know everything about software dev, especially on linux as well, which is basically just the whole OS is powershell, right?
/s/s/s