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by some_furry 1910 days ago
> I think it's reasonable for an organization to think twice before taking a dependency on such projects, given the sort of anonymous attacks mentioned in the article.

I'd argue that "thinking twice" should be the standard bar for all open source dependencies, not a discrimination levied towards anonymous or pseudonymous developers.

(Though, to be fair, I doubt Google would ever use any of my code. I know your cryptographers; they don't need me to contribute lol.)