Rust devs push back as Serde project ships precompiled binarieswww.bleepingcomputer.comexternal-linkcross-posted to: rust@programming.devhackernews@derp.footechnews@radiation.partyprogramming@programming.devsecurity@programming.devprogrammingcybersecurity@lemmy.capebreton.social ruffsl ( @ruffsl@programming.dev ) Rust@programming.devEnglish • 1 year ago message-square13fedilinkarrow-up139
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minus-square jhulten ( @jhulten@infosec.pub ) linkfedilink2•1 year agoThe maintainer took a very FOSS approach of “this is better and the tools we use don’t support better choices, so you’re welcome to fix the tools.”
minus-square argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) linkfedilink4•1 year agoIf the binary matched the source code, that argument would hold, but it doesn’t, which is sounding alarm bells in my head. Just what is in those 600 kilobytes of machine code?
The maintainer took a very FOSS approach of “this is better and the tools we use don’t support better choices, so you’re welcome to fix the tools.”
If the binary matched the source code, that argument would hold, but it doesn’t, which is sounding alarm bells in my head. Just what is in those 600 kilobytes of machine code?