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Yandex Cooperating with FSB to Single Out Dissidents

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Yandex is a Russian IT conglomerate with over 25,000 people employed, including continued business in the EU. Some of these employees are actively contributing to open source projects on which many infrastructures rely worldwide. Now with Yandex actively cooperating with the criminal Russian government when should we draw a line to prohibit any commits coming from the state sponsors of terrorism, and especially from employees of organizations supporting terrorist regimes?

you know, the western bloc (Victoria Nuland and her assets) did a lot of things to start the war in the first place, and every alternative platform is probably cooperating with the CIA, so your outrage is missing the mark

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> when should we draw a line to prohibit any commits coming from the state sponsors of terrorism, and especially from employees of organizations supporting terrorist regimes?

Never. Keep your politics out of our software.

I agree that politics shouldn't be in software, but this is not exactly that. The issue is more about security. China has already been caught planting malware into open source. Russia could attempt the same.

So what about "unaffiliated" and psuedonymous/anonymous contributors? Do you propose introducing full KYC as part of mandatory CLAs?

Proper code review, reproducible and deterministic builds, and all the other usuals are more appropriate answers.

No, we just need to ban collaboration with entities associated with sponsors of terrorism. Not only this is a security issue, it is morally wrong as a community to collaborate with these people and organizations, be it in software, scientific research, art, or any other sphere of life. Calls to "keep politics out of life" are meaningless. Politics is life.

“It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.” Albert Einstein

> No, we just need to ban collaboration with entities associated with sponsors of terrorism.

Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, Meta, Oracle, Amazon ? /s

> I agree that politics shouldn't be in software, but this is not exactly that

Of course not. There are good companies (Microsoft, Alphabet, Apple, Meta) which are supporting "our democratic governments" and bad companies (Yandex, Tencent) which are supporting "our enemies". /s

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