[FRIAM] (no subject)

[Roger Critchlow]

This was a nice line

in an algorithmic tunnel of unreliable sources


from
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/07/1001469/facebook-youtube-plandemic-covid-misinformation/

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On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 6:08 PM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:

> The long con would be to get a semi-trusted agent as a committer.
> Someone that could appear to be a student or a bland mid-level employee but
> is just playing that part.   Being open source, it would be a simple matter
> to anonymously clone it and study it for a while, advising their agent on
> what apparently benign mistakes to make.   (If the employee gets laid off
> for some mistakes that makes it all the more plausible and their agent is
> free and clear.)   Then the sponsoring organization waits for that code to
> spread into other organizations.   With their bugs in place, they have a
> period of exploitation before the bugs are identified.   All it takes for
> that is money and/or extortion.
>
>
>
> *From: *Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Roger Critchlow <
> rec at elf.org>
> *Reply-To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Date: *Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 2:55 PM
> *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [FRIAM] (no subject)
>
>
>
> Right, https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-blame - Show what revision and
> author last modified each line of a file
>
>
>
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>
>
>
> On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 5:19 PM Jon Zingale <jonzingale at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Roger,
>
>
>
> You say, "It's already happened more than once.  People, acting as if
> they cared about the code have taken over existing projects when the
> current developer loses interest.  Then they modify the code so it does
> something evil in addition to its original purpose, say stealing bitcoin
> wallet credentials.  Others have submitted packages which were one letter
> typos for trusted packages, with the same sort of surprises hidden in them."
>
>
>
> Isn't this exactly why there is a git history? Version control exists, to
> some extent,
>
> exactly so we can say who has done what and to what effect.
>
>
>
> Jonathan Zingale
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