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0 pointsthrowaway73561y ago0 comments

> Well, consider this, to "contribute" to a proprietary project you need to get hired by a company, go through their he.

Or work for a third-party company that gets access to critical systems without any checks. See for example the incident from 2022 here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okta,_Inc.

Or a third-party that rents critical infrastructure to the company (Cloud, SaaS solutions).

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joveian1y ago

Or exactly this kind of backdoor in open source but target proprietary software. I don't know of any survey but I'd be surprised if less than half of proprietary software used open source software one way or another and not surprised if it was quite a bit more than that.

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0 pointsthrowaway73561y ago0 comments

> Well, consider this, to "contribute" to a proprietary project you need to get hired by a company, go through their he.

Or work for a third-party company that gets access to critical systems without any checks. See for example the incident from 2022 here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okta,_Inc.

Or a third-party that rents critical infrastructure to the company (Cloud, SaaS solutions).

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joveian1y ago

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