The backdoor highlights the politics, governance, and community management of an ecosystem exploited by massive tech companies and largely run by volunteers.
software developers are criticizing Microsoft and GitHub for taking down some of the affected code repositories
Surely it’s sensible of Github to take down malicious code? It’s not just honest, hardworking people trying to make sense of this that have eyes, it’s others looking for inspiration from what appears to be a sophisticated and very dangerous supply chain attack.
It does make sense, to prevent automated tools from pulling it’s code. But I do wish they kept it around, maybe I my viewable if you’re logged in or something like that, but it seems they don’t have the tools to do this.
Surely it’s sensible of Github to take down malicious code? It’s not just honest, hardworking people trying to make sense of this that have eyes, it’s others looking for inspiration from what appears to be a sophisticated and very dangerous supply chain attack.
It does make sense, to prevent automated tools from pulling it’s code. But I do wish they kept it around, maybe I my viewable if you’re logged in or something like that, but it seems they don’t have the tools to do this.