Wyre to CybersecurityEnglish • 3 months agoGitHub disables XZ Repositorywww.phoronix.comexternal-linkmessage-square19arrow-up1227arrow-down14
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•3 months agoThis kinda makes sense, corporately. It’s technically hosting insecure malicious code… maybe they don’t want the liability of redistributing that, even in the git history.
minus-squareWyreOPlinkEnglish21•3 months agoIt also means that Microsoft has unprecedented control over the life of any open source project still hosted on GitHub.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish15•3 months agoIf you don’t host your own git server, this is always true.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish12•3 months ago“Unprecedented” except for every single repo that’s ever been hosted on a platform the authors didn’t own. There’s far better battles to pick.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•3 months agoWhoever paying for the server will have control, Microsoft or not.
This kinda makes sense, corporately. It’s technically hosting insecure malicious code… maybe they don’t want the liability of redistributing that, even in the git history.
It also means that Microsoft has unprecedented control over the life of any open source project still hosted on GitHub.
If you don’t host your own git server, this is always true.
“Unprecedented” except for every single repo that’s ever been hosted on a platform the authors didn’t own. There’s far better battles to pick.
Whoever paying for the server will have control, Microsoft or not.