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GNU is Not Unix

Open Source community is very trusting

Posted by sengan from the could-be-our-downfall dept.
LWN has an article by Bruce Perens outlining a possible attack on Open Source: the Trojan Horse. The idea is that malicious patches could be contributed to a program from an unworthy source, later to be exploited. Do you think this is an issue?
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