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Software with politic opinion is a security threat


The software that has a political opinion implies a bias and high risk for security. Avoid software with a "position" today, so you don't get hacked tomorrow.

This is the story of CVE-2022-23812, a famous NPM package node-ipc with over a million weekly downloads that started deleting all data and overwriting all files on developers' machines to protest the Ukraine war in March 2022. As you can see, the "opinion" or "political view" of a company is not only a way to hype on sanctions and curry favor with investors, the government, and consumers, but it is also a clear signal about potential threats. Direct political opinions in a product's blog, like "we support X" or "we are against X" Blocking people on social media and in chats/groups Any aggressive behavior of maintainers in public discussions Too persistent requests for donations

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