Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors Installed

Re:Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors... by bradleyland on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @10:27AM (#9303800)

> You can't trust anybody except for open source repositories.

Meanwhile, in the real world, Sourceforge injects adware in to downloads for open source projects. Trust is more subtle than open source/closed source.

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Re:Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors... by icebraining on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @10:35AM (#9303888)

Well, that depends if you read that has a "repository of open source software" or a "repository that is open source". Sourceforge doesn't qualify as the latter.

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Re:Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors... by dragonwriter on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @12:04PM (#9304626)

"You can't trust anybody outside of group X" does not imply "You can trust everybody inside of group X".

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Re:Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors... by cowls on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @12:29PM (#9304796)

True, but then that is not what he said, you conveniently reworded it ;)

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Re:Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors... by dragonwriter on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @12:37PM (#9304861)

> True, but then that is not what he said, you conveniently reworded it ;)

I reworded it for generality, but specifically, "You can't trust anybody except open source repositories" does not imply "You can trust all open source repositories" in exactly the same way as, in more general terms, "You can't trust anybody outside of group X" does not imply "You can trust everybody inside of group X".

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Re:Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors... by unstabilo on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @10:36AM (#9303900)

He didn't say all open source is trustworthy, only that closed source is not. And Sourceforge, the repository itself is not open source.

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