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> Relying on third-party, un-audited code was acceptable when the majority of contributors were from the West.

No, it wasn’t. It was always a really bad idea, and it’s been exploited repeatedly since the start.




Yeah, maybe, but for the last 20 years there really weren't enough incidents to make it an activity that was too risky to do outside of some really security sensitive applications.




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