[D] I’m terrified for humanity’s future [logging-log4j2]

["krystalXfoss (via GitHub)" <gi...@apache.org>]

GitHub user krystalXfoss created a discussion: I’m terrified for humanity’s future

Hello, I am scared for the future of civilisation and on many different levels, and I am honestly considering doing something terrible to myself.

I’ve written an article about an issue that not nearly enough people are doing anything about; https://medium.com/@corpseleague/dear-united-nations-the-internets-fragile-foss-foundations-pose-a-risk-to-humanity-2e98fdd94bd9

Our internet relies on the FOSS projects it was built on; barely held together by digital duct tape, and at risk of falling apart.
Log4Shell, XZ Utils, Heartbleed, npm’s left-pad incident, core-js’s maintainer not doing well financially, ImageMagick…the list of incidents caused by this problem is endless.

Also, I might have accidentally shown this article to a sleeper agent, and I don’t want to be the reason for a malicious new project maintainer/hacker’s backdoor to a software in millions of systems around the world.

So I believe that people cannot continue to do nothing about this problem, and actually start taking action.

If we can get together and convince powerful people to take action against this problem then I’m positive we can fix this permanently. I do not want anyone doing nothing and it’s time we start doing something.

Otherwise I might actually do something terrible to myself because I cannot live with how my loved ones relying on the internet could be at risk.

We can start by contacting the most respected people at Microsoft, and it is much easier to reach out to them on Mastodon than on Twitter;
https://mastodon.social/@troyhunt@infosec.exchange
We can additionally contact the United Nations so they can take action and create a new resolution to fix this problem; https://x.com/UN_PGA

Even if you don’t think this issue is a huge deal…these FOSS projects still need support so they can be maintained adequately and so we won’t risk backdoors.

We have to #SAVEOURINTERNET so we can save humanity.

@ppkarwasz 

GitHub link: https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/discussions/3818

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Re: [D] I’m terrified for humanity’s future [logging-log4j2]

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GitHub user krystalXfoss added a comment to the discussion: I’m terrified for humanity’s future

Also I’ve contacted someone who can reach out to the UN about this so it can hopefully be fixed permanently; https://x.com/mcraddock/status/1942142163577413788

GitHub link: https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/discussions/3818#discussioncomment-13731120

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GitHub user krystalXfoss added a comment to the discussion: I’m terrified for humanity’s future

Also I’ve contacted someone who can reach out to the UN about this so it can hopefully be fixed permanently; https://x.com/mcraddock/status/1942142163577413788

GitHub link: https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/discussions/3818#discussioncomment-13733945

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