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Ventoy source code contains some unknown BLOBs, still no word on the issue from the dev after months (github.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I had no idea this issue had been identified. While I find this tool very useful, the project is seeming rather questionable to me now.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

that’s what automation is for - nobody is going to manually check them, but anyone is able to automatically set something up to check their hashes in change… the fact that it’s possible that anyone is doing that now that it’s a known issue perhaps makes it less problematic as an attack vector

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That is true, but also nobody is doing it. Just like nobody is verifying Signal's "reproducible builds".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

are you sure?

there could be thousands just waiting for a failure to come out and say “HEY THIS IS DODGY”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yea because I tested it myself. Nobody else seems to care, and if they did, I would think there would be a public way to see regular test results regardless.

I know this exists for some projects, but somehow nothing privacy-sensitive