• JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Same could be said for any intelligence service . it is better to focus on preventing and detecting these things through analysis and code reviews.

    And they could just offer boatloads of cash to someone in another country to insert something so this doesn’t really prevent anything it only isolates a certain subset of people.

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      So if we can’t completely 100% deal with a problem, we shouldn’t even try? I mean, you’re correct, but we can’t solve all problems at once. If we deal with at least one, then we’ve made progress. Then we can try to deal with the next one.

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        2 hours ago

        No but this doesn’t do anything to “deal” with the problem as anyone can built up trust like Jian tan showed. The argument that this makes us more secure is like saying closed source is more secure cause the hackers dont have access to the source.

        We have evidence of the US messing with nist standards so by that same logic should we assume all us actors are bad ?

        The solution is to verify the code maybe have multiple people from different locations have to review stuff. Build more checks into the process.

        The whole point of it being open is that it can be reviewed. It shouldn’t matter where the contributor is from as all code should be subjected to a rigorous review process.