Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com...
by weinzierl on Friday March 29, 2024 @06:25PM
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Yes, but there was also little pressure to really build the WOT. People, like myself, did it because it was fun, but no one really relied on it. This could change, but it is still far from certain if it'd work given enough pressure.
Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com...
by progbits on Friday March 29, 2024 @06:02PM
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Chain/web was typo, corrected, thanks.
I know of the key party issues. But there is some value to knowing how far removed from me and people I trust the project authors are.
Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com...
by msm_ on Friday March 29, 2024 @07:15PM
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Nowadays i achieve this with linkedin[1] connections. Less nerd cred, but achieves roughly the same purpose (most of the people I care about in my niche are at most a 3rd degree connection - a friend of a friend of a friend).
[1] formerly also twitter, at least partially.
For all of their nerd cred, key parties didn't accomplish very much (as evidenced by the fact that nothing on the Internet really broke when the WoT imploded a few years ago[1]). The "real" solution here is mostly cultural: treating third-party software like the risky thing it actually is, rather than a free source of pre-screened labor.
[1]: https://inversegravity.net/2019/web-of-trust-dead/