Oscar Wilde: "Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing".
The Economist's expert: “The bottom line is that we have untold trillions of dollars riding on top of code developed by hobbyists” [on the xz vulnerability]
This looks like open source FUD, so here's a refute: 1) the sophistication required to sneak something into a so-called hobby project, 2) it failed, 3) it had to happen in the open, 4) think about how easy this is done in closed source
@benjaoming not too what about, but what about
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/03/microsoft-errors-security-chinese-hack
@benjaoming This talking point was around when Moses broke the iPads