Stealthy Linux rootkit found in the wild after going undetected for 2 years::Krasue infects telecom firms in Thailand using techniques for staying under the radar.

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    random untrustworthy code.

    Honestly, is there much code in the world which doesn’t meet this description? How do you propose we decide what is trustworthy? Every time I update my packages I’m getting possibly millions of new lines of code that I can’t possibly personally vet

    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Those packages are vetted by multiple maintainers from different places, they’d all have to be in on it.