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

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Isn’t most of Linux open source?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

All of it is. But its still possible to sneak backdoors into Foss software (though magnitudes harder). See xz.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you can sneak backdoors, removing one side, would not make the other side, even if you consider the good one, be even more able to sneak one too. In election tables, what guarantees transparency is everyone represented at the table, not banning one side.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

But NSLs force them to do it, and prevent them from talking about it. This is a bigger risk than something like the xz attack, because the barrier of entry is so low