Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability
Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability
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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I would simply deal with these bullies by telling them to fuck off and fork their own thing instead of bugging me to push an update on the main. This feels nore like it should be happening to closed source things where the only way to get a thing in it is to beg the dev.
Unfortunately, that's the social element of social engineering. Not all developers feel that way and it's possible to trick them.
Luckily, most developers are on the spectrum and aren't affected as much by that type of social engineering.
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I think most people who are "on the spectrum" are undiagnosed, this survey asked about diagnosed autism.
And that's pretty close to the average in the population of 1 in 36, or 2.8%.
Completely a meme answer. IT workers including software devs in the past were seen as nerdy loner types