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Jeez, what a disaster. More and more it’s becoming clear that you cannot actually trust anyone else’s code unless you audit it yourself.

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How can we live like this?

Nothing dependent on an honor system lasts long (in the US at least). Some bonehead always ruins the nice thing! Life with the inevitable bad actor is worse for everyone… but we manage.

What's old is new again.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust

https://xkcd.com/364/

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