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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My only reservation is that this compromised contributor has been working on the project for a few years. I hope that this is the end of the tunnel and there aren’t more issues to be uncovered with further analysis.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Its easy to spiral out of control thinking about how the practice that got us this backdoor is something that is used all over the open source community to build code. In the end we can only evaluate what is in front of us and pray the things lurking in the shadows are something we can deal with when they expose themselves.