Re: What about bad intentions?

Philippe Baril Lecavalier via Cygwin-apps <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.cygwin.applications
Message-ID <CABu4Xf66R03SnEJ309OEST-4G-msTykm1tQLjp_1R8oKNMT4Xw@mail.gmail.com>
If the package is built using the build service scallywag, then you
could not hide this easily. Any such manipulation would have to be
listed in the *.cygport file: suspicious patch, download something
from somewhere in the middle of the process or use some mystery
alternate source for the package.

On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM Michael Cook via Cygwin-apps
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> What concerns do we have about the volunteers who adopt Cygwin packages?
> If a volunteer were to have bad intentions, do we think we would notice
> before any actual problems were introduced? Imagine malware from a North
> Korean team, for example.
>
> Michael
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