Vitor Pamplona on Nostr: I am starting to wonder if I can't get a PR into a codebase with lots of invisible ...
I am starting to wonder if I can't get a PR into a codebase with lots of invisible unicode characters that together create a backdoor. A simple typo-fixing PR could become a Trojan horse for a bunch of code the owner of the repo won't see. 🤔
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2025-04-17 18:25:49Event JSON
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