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Re:Backdoor code found in 11 Ruby libraries on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:39AM (#20768549)
Wow! It seems like the "many eyes" theory of open-source safety really doesn't help much.
This really doesn't matter. The fires endanger lives. Some things are more important than money. I should hope you'd realize that.
Interesting that it's just an "8-bit look" but not really "8-bit". Code is written in Lua which will be either 32- or 64- bit depending on what platform the Lua interpreter is compiled on.

(From the name, I went to read the docs, because I thought they emulated an "ideal" 8-bit processor, too.)

Wouldn't 777 words in any language give 90% coverage of all the words in a typical newspaper?