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by heeen2 809 days ago
I wonder if separating the test files out into their own repo, so that they would not have been available at build time could have made this harder. The reasoning being that anything available and this potentially involved in the build should be human readable.
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> Anything available and this potentially involved in the build should be human readable.

That's actually a good principle to adopt overall.

We should treat this attack like an air plane accident and adopt new rules that mitigate the chances of it being successfully carried out again. We might not be able to vet every single person who contributes, but we should be able to easily separate out noisy test data.