Open-source argument from the entropy bug
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- @skot9000
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- independent
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- social statement
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- 6 Aug 2026, 20:05 UTC
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- capture held
A two-line argument that closed source would not have prevented the theft: the entropy bug would still have been exploited if the firmware source were not viewable, but in that case "there would be no survivors", meaning nobody outside the attacker would have been placed to find the defect or warn owners. It closes with "DEMAND OPEN SOURCE". Distinct because most of the held commentary treats source availability as having helped the attacker, and this inverts that; the same account's collision arithmetic is held at skot9000-population-collisions. The counterfactual is the poster's own and is not testable.
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