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A chilling near-miss shows how today’s digital infrastructure is vulnerable
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The Economist
April 04, 2024
In practice that means governments and tech giants, both of which benefit enormously from free software libraries. Both should expand funding for and co-operation with non-profit institutions, like the Open Source Initiative and the Linux Foundation, which support the open-source ecosystem. The New Responsibility Foundation, a German think-tank, suggests that governments might, for example, allow employees to contribute to open-source software in their spare time and ease laws that criminalise “white hat” or ethical hacking.
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Dr. Sven Herpig
Lead Cybersecurity Policy and Resilience