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[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 29 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)
  1. Write an open source malware
  2. Freely publish it everywhere because everyone assumes someone checked it, because it's open source, you know?
  3. ???
  4. Profit
[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

That's the thing though if it's open source and 99.9% don't check that 0.1% checking it will be enough.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

By definition in order to have . 1% then the sample size must be greater than 1,000. The vast majority of open source projects will not get to this level.

[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think for a open source projects with such a low number of users, the first few users will definitely look further than "it's open source".

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