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  • I would bet even careful Arch users don’t sift through every repo they have installed during every system update to make sure nobody tinkered with an older one today. Some may have written elaborate scripts that warn them when for example the owner of a package changed but that’s probably less than 1% of even just older Arch users. If it even exists at all.

    I don’t think this is just a growing skill issue. I suspect the main reason this seems to happen more frequently is mere popularity. More popular means there’s more to gain for bad actors.




  • That’s true, although very simplified. The slightly less simplified version is that Jared Kushner’s private equidy firm and the Saudis took a huge loan to buy EA then loaded the company with that debt. EA will be forced to sell a huge chunk of their portfolio and layoff thousands of people. If they survive this somehow they will be a shadow of what once was but more likely they’ll simply vanish soon. This shit should be completely illegal but I would lie if I said I’ll miss EA. A few people at the top getting filthy rich by destroying the company seems like a very fitting end for them.