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Love to see it. About time open source devs started fighting back against the Silicon Valley techbro founder scum who've been shamelessly exploiting their idealism and naivete for decades

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you love to see people indiscriminately pushing malware to random servers without knowing what the server even does?

You’re running mission critical software without thoroughly parsing your chain of dependencies and then automatically deploying updates on top of it? I don’t think the author is at fault here, just bad practices of whoever broke their application.

malware is malware. shoulda coulda doesn't matter its still a crime. "All those people I scammed out of their life saving should have known better". You probably shouldn't advertise that you work at crowd strike with crazy takes like that.

I love how you describe this as “pushing malware to random servers”.

Maybe if he included a backdoor in previous versions and now dispatched infinite loop from his C&C server, sure. But he published a new version of his library, which was literally pulled by the affected parties.

I’m pretty sure that was illegal in the US, but that’s multiple-felonies-a-day-land anyway.

I love to see venture bros getting fucked in the ass like they deserve. They're choosing to pull the updates, so anything that happens on their end as a result is their risk, their responsibility, and their problem

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