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This attack doesn’t exploit a technical issue or bug, it exploits the open source philosophy, and unless the community will come up with a systematic process to counter it, expect more sophisticated attacks similar to it in the future. This time we got lucky that some smart nerd -I am a nerd too, this is a praise not to be taken in a bad way- noticed and notified the community in less than 20 days of the second backdoor implementation, next time the attack may undergoes more comprehensive “rehearsals” that it will make it impossible to detect.


Could've happened just as easily if not more easily with proprietary software.


Can you explain what aspects of the open source philosophy were exploited, and what possible mitigations might be?




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