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Re:On the Weaponisation of Open Source by emodendroket on Friday March 18, 2022 @08:06PM (#30729303)
> Racism isn't the point, crippling the Russian state is. Assuming anything else smells like bad faith.

One incident related in the story is someone slipping malware into a node library which appears, among other collateral damage, to have deleted the archives one NPO had collected of the war hoping to document Russian war crimes. So really I'm not sold on it being that different.

Re:On the Weaponisation of Open Source by smsm42 on Saturday March 19, 2022 @01:26AM (#30731360)
Do you have a link describing which NPO was that and what exactly happened?
Re:On the Weaponisation of Open Source by emodendroket on Saturday March 19, 2022 @02:47AM (#30731735)
https://github.com/RIAEvangelist/node-ipc/issues/308

Draw your own conclusions about authenticity but it doesn't sound implausible.

Re:On the Weaponisation of Open Source by smsm42 on Sunday March 20, 2022 @12:35AM (#30740149)
Anonymous post without any details... Yeah, I smell some substance that comes out of a bull.