• hitwright@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I guess it’s difficult to otherwise explain the position you have? It’s not like people face criminal charges in Russia just for speaking against it. It’s easy to see how the state would want to introduce backdoors to most western systems.

    It’s extremely sad that a lot of good Russians get swooped in this. But even abroad their lives are in danger to fight the state.

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      I doubt if someone wants to introduce a backdoor, they would do that with a russian mailing address. People removed were open and transparent about their nationalities which means there is even less chance them being bad actors than some random guy pretending to be American.

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        3 hours ago

        Aren’t the removed commiters with direct access to the kernel? It’s not like it’s some rando that makes pull requests.