USE WINDOWS.
if this happened on windows probably no one would have noticed it until a large cyberattack happened, also, using that logic no one should be using CPU’s created after 1995 due to meltdown / spectre
Im not irritated, im saying that your logic is flawed, stop using some software piece due to a vulnerability is at least dumb, every software will have at least one, open source or not, we are humans, we commit errors, example: the SMB vulnerability that allowed the quick spread of WannaCry in 2017, and that was on Windows, and actually we are lucky that this happened on open source software and not in some big corporation privative software, if that was the case, we wouldnt be able to know about the backdoor until a large cyberattack happened
Makes you wonder how many of these are out there that have not been found?
And the one main issue with FOSS rears its ugly head – freedom of contribution also means freedom of bad contributions.
could this be a nation-state attack? since jiat75 spent multiple years developing a fake persona and it seems like a lot of effort was put into this
Well, there’s also malicious code in the proprietary binary blobs of the drivers and those run with kernel privilege. At least that one we see what it does.
