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Re:Nixos-unstable’s ISO_minimal.x86_64-Linux is 100% reprodu... by marcosdumay on Sunday June 20, 2021 @09:24PM (#27575404)
> I predict that everyone's imagination on this topic will expand once there's a big enough incident in the news.

How the Solarwinds incident, with about every large software vendor being silently compromised for years does not qualify?

Because it does not, people's imagination is as closed as it always was.

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Re:Nixos-unstable’s ISO_minimal.x86_64-Linux is 100% reprodu... by yeowMeng on Sunday June 20, 2021 @09:33PM (#27575454)
Solarwinds is closed source so the choice to build from source is not really an option.
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Re:Nixos-unstable’s ISO_minimal.x86_64-Linux is 100% reprodu... by pabs3 on Sunday June 20, 2021 @10:32PM (#27575726)
They could have distributed the code to a few select parties for the purposes of doing a build and nothing more.
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Re:Nixos-unstable’s ISO_minimal.x86_64-Linux is 100% reprodu... by marcosdumay on Monday June 21, 2021 @09:58AM (#27579215)
Specifically Microsoft did distribute the code to several parties for the purposes of auditing. But they didn't allow building it.
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