<p>I keep brooding on the way the xz backdoor was enabled in significant part via weaponizing the FOSS culture of shitty behavior and abuse. </p><p>Yes, there're other pathologies at work here (the big tech capitalist pillaging of the commons, etc). </p><p>But what is striking is that the uncool, mean standards of FOSS conduct that many of us have decried for years, & that many defended as authentic, tough, etc., ended up not just being exclusionary loser behavior, but a significant attack surface.</p>
