The Xz backdoor and a near miss on the F-Droid app store show how the entitled attitude of some people in the open source community can be used to push malicious or insecure code.
What?
That’s a pretty bold claim to make.
Got any sources on those numbers?
I just did some googling and the only number I could find came from stackoverflow showing some info on the people who use the site from a few years ago.
2.6% of the users who use use stackoverflow stated they were on the spectrum.
Unfortunately, that’s the social element of social engineering. Not all developers feel that way and it’s possible to trick them.
Luckily, most developers are on the spectrum and aren’t affected as much by that type of social engineering.
Most developers are on the spectrum
What? That’s a pretty bold claim to make. Got any sources on those numbers?
I just did some googling and the only number I could find came from stackoverflow showing some info on the people who use the site from a few years ago.
2.6% of the users who use use stackoverflow stated they were on the spectrum.
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019?utm_source=so-owned&utm_medium=announcement-banner&utm_campaign=dev-survey-2019
I think most people who are “on the spectrum” are undiagnosed, this survey asked about diagnosed autism.
And that’s pretty close to the average in the population of 1 in 36, or 2.8%.
Completely a meme answer. IT workers including software devs in the past were seen as nerdy loner types