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by minimax 811 days ago
> if this was found by accident, how many things still remain undiscovered.

This, to me, is the most important question. There is no way Andres Freund just happened to find the _only_ backdoored popular open source project out there. There must be like a dozen of these things in the wild?

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It wasn’t found accidentally, he felt it. There’s a difference.

Next one will definitely be less careless with adding time to it’s execution.

Maybe.

But maybe there is not many (critical) ones out there. Otherwise, I believe we would encounter more often those kind of situations.

"(B)urn (A)ll (S)atanic (H)elper-scripts" ? get the kindling?
thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind
Human minds shine bright, but machines lend their light
Human minds shine bright, and machines steal their light