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“the lesson I'm choosing to take from xz, as an oss maintainer, is that anyone trying to pressure or guilt me into doing something should immediately be told no, for security reasons” (crabby.fyi)
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[–] phx@lemmy.ca 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Anyone pushing you to do something you don't understand, or understand poorly. I could see an actual security researcher pushing for a code update to fix a vulnerability.

Heck, even as an occasional contributor I take some pride in seeing my fixes etc make it into the mainline codestream.

But yeah, you definitely need to be wary of somebody you only know from online pushing a change that doesn't make sense or you don't understand.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago

Anyone pushing you to do something you don’t understand, or understand poorly.

This was taught to me in my bank teller training back in 19-dickety-two. Don’t let someone try to rush you or to obfuscate/over-complicate things.