Got banned on the open-source community for having a different political opinion and exposing manipulation. That admins really don’t seem to mind getting their systems ransomwared lol.

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  • It depends on what vulnerabilities we’re talking about. If these are arbitrary code execution ones, they may be more dangerous in games since that’s not a kind of app most security researchers will look into. But if we’re talking about in-app ones that let the hacker steal your game stats or something (so only the app’s data), it’s definitely not anywhere near as bad as a browser vulnerability because browsers save much more sensitive data. Also a game isn’t something a bad actor would consider the best attack surface but if they do, it might cause a lot of harm.










  • Yes I expected that argument. My point was there was no valid reason to remove them. The xz case didn’t convince any other projects to get rid of maintainers based on their nationality after all.

    It’s obviously my own opinion that what Linus did was an nonnegotiable red flag but I’d prefer to stick with it for now. I guess making this discussion political was a pretty harmful decision so I’ll remove some of my replies in order to avoid creating more drama.