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"we are slowly (far too slowly) learning that our assumptions that all developers are benevolent is incorrect, and it's going to take another 2-5 instances of this kind of attack before people really start to understand why and see the danger of simply using libraries at all"

I agree, but at the same time if we had this mindset earlier; open source probably wouldn't have caught on as quickly. Maybe it wouldn't have become mainstream?



Honestly, it is kind of surprising we've gotten this far assuming that basically all open source maintainers aren't malicious




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