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Re:ImageGlass added malware with this commit by baskethead on Saturday January 22, 2022 @11:01AM (#30037781)
You have it backwards. Open source is the reason why it was detected. Closed source would have made it extremely hard to find.
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Re:ImageGlass added malware with this commit by msla on Saturday January 22, 2022 @11:15AM (#30037908)
For the poster you're responding to, I get the impression that their main goal is to avoid dealing with angry users, so people not noticing the change would have been a feature, not a bug.
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