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Lance R. Vick

@mattly I think trying to force authors of software to sign their software or improve their security posture beyond what they want to is a dead end.

Plus, who is to say a developer like you is even still alive to be forced to change? Or that your account was not taken over by a blackhat years ago?

We need to stop trusting authors and start requiring/funding actual signed reviews of the code we effectively copy/paste from randos on the internet.

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Lance R. Vick

@mattly I did talk to the GitHub team about this stuff, for -hours-, however they are convinced even offering code-signing or signed code reviews as -optional- would make people feel pressured to do such things, and contribute less code, so thus they will never do it.

Instead, they force 2FA on developers and make them want to contribute less code anyway, a change that does not actually solve the problem.

Microsoft/Github have lost the plot. Or they never had it.

I recommend Codeberg.

Matthew Lyon

@lrvick Yeah I had moved anything active of mine to codeberg shortly after they announced copilot

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