• tabular@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      I’m aware you can intentionally try to make source code unreadable and making open source software effectively proprietary but I do not know of any examples of people doing that. Do you?

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        They meant backdoors hidden in plain sight, so making it readable, but (EDIT: seemingly) innocent. People do that.

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      8 months ago

      Probably referring to Microsoft. That’s the one of the two with all the cloud experience

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      People notice the oddest things, look at the xz malware incident. All because some guy figured a decompression subroutine in his software was taking a bit longer than expected.