🚨 How one Microsoft dev, Andres Freund, spotted a hidden backdoor in XZ Utils & thwarted a massive hacker plot for internet control! State-sponsored sabotage dodged. Watch: https://youtu.be/F7iLfuci75Y #Cybersecurity #OpenSource #HackerHero 💻🛡️
#reminder #yt be kind to your maintainers ✅ 💡

"I'd like to nominate #Gromit as an unlikely #HackerHero."

Seconded!

Please read the whole article, it is worth it:

"Gromit cannily anticipates the tragic unfolding of technology going wrong. With a slight, slow shake of the head, he often wears an expression of disappointed disbelief while looking at Wallace's plans - an expression that perfectly sums up my own feelings about most technology today."

https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/gromit/