Posts from 29 March 2024

Random, unordered, probably useless thoughts on today's apocalypxze... Part of the success in getting this into Debian may be the result of there being no xz maintainer there. It is "maintained" ...

my only contribution to the xz discourse: absolutely none of the supply chain stuff we're currently doing, including the things i like, would have stopped this. the only things that can stop this are (1) compulsively treating all code as untrusted, and (2) way, way stronger capability checks and restrictions in running systems. (1) is economically infeasible (the world runs on free labor from OSS), and (2) has had only very limited practical success.

@glyph @eb@social.coop I'm frustrated that big tech's efforts to increase core library security are "your project is too popular, you must use 2FA" and "the best reverse engineers in the world will find your bugs and put you on a 90 day disclosure deadline" and not "here is $100K/year and benefits to keep doing what you're doing at your own pace."

@eb@social.coop I really hope that this causes an industry-wide reckoning with the common practice of letting your entire goddamn product rest on the shoulders of one overworked person having a slow mental health crisis without financially or operationally supporting them whatsoever. I want everyone who has an open source dependency to read this message https://www.mail-archive.com/xz-devel@tukaani.org/msg00567.html

Attached: 1 image #xz #CVE #cve20243094 #Linux

It’s not surprising that a major security vulnerability is once again caused by maintainer burnout and someone stepping in to take over. We’ve all been talking about that risk for years. Sadly it’s also unsurprising that OSS teams still are going to need to plead with management to stay funded, and paid OSS maintainers will still do unpaid overtime to work with volunteers. 🙃.

Love to see forks emerge when a company gets greedy and transitions to source-available after years of accepting third party contributions and establishing market share under an open source license.

Hey, with people in the news getting sentenced to prison, facing the possibility of prison time, etc., just a reminder: it is not desirable, nor funny, that violence in prison (including sexual violence), be a part of someone's punishment. Even people you really, really do not like who have done really super bad things. It is to the United State's shame that violence in prison is part of our carceral system, and we should not celebrate it, ever. We should seek to eliminate it.

Attached: 1 image Going to need slightly bigger [truth table](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_table)... :calculator: