Mastodawn

Kind and cherished FOSS and computing freedom advocate @sleepyowl (Joyce Ng) has gone missing

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/56815962

We are starting to attract evil attention that sees FOSS as an obstacle to their desired surveillance state worldwide. This is why they’re infiltrating open source projects and kidnapping others.

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ageedizzle 4d ago

This is why they’re infiltrating open source projects

Are they infiltrating open source projects too now?

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rbos 4d ago

The XZ thing was almost certainly some nation state actor, imo.

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ageedizzle

Whats the XZ thing? Im out of the loop

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☂️-4d ago

some rando gained the trust of the xz maintainer and tried to sneak in a very sophisticated backdoor. luckily caught, but i wonder if we had another project compromised and don’t even know about it.

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Bilb!4d ago

If you have an hour, this video from Veritasium about it is pretty good.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ

The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew

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