For months members of the public have been using GeoSpy, a tool trained on millions of images that can find the location a photo was taken based on soil, architecture, and more. It's GeoGuesser at scale.
Nope it’s pentesting. Gotta keep up with IT terminology. If the author didn’t intend it, it’s malware.
If any spyware or back doors are found, foss community can quickly deal with it.
This happened with xz, a rogue maintainer snuck in malware which was by chance found. But there would be no chance if it were closed source or talented maintainers were so appreciated by society that they were mourned after starving to death.
foss spyware is still spyware
Nope it’s pentesting. Gotta keep up with IT terminology. If the author didn’t intend it, it’s malware.
If any spyware or back doors are found, foss community can quickly deal with it.
This happened with xz, a rogue maintainer snuck in malware which was by chance found. But there would be no chance if it were closed source or talented maintainers were so appreciated by society that they were mourned after starving to death.