Security, Trust, and Resilience in Open Source

Whoever is interested in embedding further backdoors has learned from the extensive public coverage of everything that went wrong. These mistakes have been pointed out, published and learned from. We have given the actors behind this backdoor free training for future attacks. It is time that distributions learn from this as well and also take train... See more

In the end, the fragile balance of open source—that unlikely blend of personalities and incentives that has driven tech’s innovation engine throughout the 21st century—won’t be upset by the odd state actor, or by malicious spam, or whatever scary new thing The Register is up in arms about tomorrow. It can only be disrupted when the community comes ... See more