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The Vulnerability Apocalypse is here, and computer security is about to get a whole lot worse. Here's what you can do.

eff.orgComputer Security Is About to Get a Lot Worse, Here’s What You Can DoIt is a commonly held truth among computer geeks that there is no such thing as bug free software, or a secure computer. Any piece of software that anyone actually uses will have a security vulnerabil...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

@eff.org

Corporations made trillions of dollars off of a foundation of open-source software like PHP; the vulnerability apocalypse could destroy that foundation. It's time for corporations to pull their weight.

eff.orgThe Vulnerability Apocalypse and Why We Should Fund Open SourceIf you use the internet at all, you may have noticed that a large percentage of sites suddenly went down earlier this week—and all your nerdiest friends were talking about "The Vulnerability Apocalyps...

Silverrain64

@silverrain64.bsky.social

What are you asking them to do, exactly? The key functions of corporations are to acquire and exploit. If we push them to "take responsibility" for something, what they will do is claim it as their own IP, license it, and monetize it... and THEN fix it.

Julien Pierre

@madbrain.com

I have worked 40% of my career on open source code at Netscape/Sun. It can be done. Sadly, many companies nowadays don't contribute their fair share to open source. That is foolish, as this week proved.

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