Tim Kelloggi don’t understand how people see the xz incident and conclude that open source is insecure. That level of social engineering could easily have worked on a company as well, but it was detected *because* it was open source. All other mechanisms failed, and it was just some random guy poking around that discovered it. That kind of scrutiny doesn’t happen on closed source systems
Noel Miller 
@kellogh This makes me conclude that we need more funding from companies that benefit from open source code. The fact that xz is only maintained by 1 or 2 developers and is used in as important utilities as OpenSSH is troubling. It doesn't make me worry about open source, it just shows weaknesses in the infrastructure we depend on.
Fingel@dogphilosopher @kellogh Is it surprising that it's only maintained by 1 or 2 developers? For the most part, it's finished software. A small compression library that barely ever changes just doesn't need more than one developer. What would a larger team do all day?
@Fingel @dogphilosopher insert exploits, obvs