The XZ Utils backdoor, discovered last week, and the Heartbleed security vulnerability ten years ago, share the same ultimate root cause. Both of them, and in fact all critical infrastructure open source projects, should be fixed with the same solution: ensure baseline funding for proper open source maintenance.\n
  • bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    It's always impressive to me that instead of sending billions of dollars to Microsoft, the US government could have had an entire operating system that caters exactly to them. They could have then given back in the form of commits improving the software for the rest of us too.