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		andix on May 5, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Social engineering takeovers of open source projec... One follow up to compromising existing maintainers: This makes the creators or long-term good faith maintainers maybe even more "dangerous" than new maintainers.

WanderPanda on May 6, 2024 [–]

Are we facing a Byzantine generals kind of situation now?

Mtinie on May 6, 2024 | [–]

We have always faced it, it’s just that there's more awareness of the potential issues.

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